April 9th
Book Four, Chapter 3
That it is Profitable to Communicate Often
Without You I cannot exist; and without Your visitation I am unable to live. Therefore must I often come to You, and receive You as the medicine of my salvation, lest perhaps I faint in the way, should I be deprived of this heavenly food....Necessary, indeed, is it for me, who so often fall and commit sin, so quickly grow torpid and faint, that by frequent prayers and confessions, and by the sacred receiving of Your Body, I may again be renewed, cleansed, and inflamed, lest, perhaps, by longer abstaining, I fall away from my holy purpose....For if now I am so often negligent and lukewarm, whenever I communicate, what would it be if I did not take this remedy, and did not seek so great a help?
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