We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.