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Little angels accompanied the sacrament or the sacred pictures and relics on their way through the streets; or characters in the Passion such as Christ with the cross, the thieves and the soldiers, or the faithful women were represented for public edification.
The real, living religious spirit insists on bringing, as in St Mark's, a gift of precious material, of delicate antique ornament, with every shipload. The crown of the Madonna is not, like the tragedy queen's, of tinsel, the sacrament is not given in an empty chalice.
And such is the force and virtue of this miraculous sacrament that it makes two different persons one and the same flesh; and even more than this when the virtuous are married; for though they have two souls they have but one will.
But when the flesh partaken of at the feast is that of the Totem the guardian and presiding genius of the tribe or perhaps of one of its chief food-animals then clearly the feast takes on a holy and solemn character. It becomes a sacrament of unity of the unity of all with the tribe, and with each other.
Ange, for whom the Foundress had offered her life, and who was then in perfect health, on witnessing the extraordinary prodigy, took the name of Sister of the Blessed Sacrament, which had been the community appellation of Sister Bourgeois during life. The bereaved Sisters desired to have the portrait of their dear deceased mother taken, before the tomb received her mortal remains.
Being answered in the negative, he confessed and received the sacrament from the priest, repeating after him the mass with great devoutness. He asked what prayer was the best and most effective to recommend him to God in his last hour. On being told that no prayer could be more effectual than the one which Christ himself had taught, he prepared immediately to repeat the Lord's prayer.
After being a little recovered, he looked round him, as if afraid that some one would injure him, and said to the Grand Vicar Clauset, who inquired the cause of his accident and terror: "Good God! that man who gave me, on the 2d of September, 1792, in the convent of the Carenes, the five wounds from which I still suffer, is now an officer, and was about to receive the sacrament from my hands."
From her the young advocate learned that Count Claudieuse was decidedly worse, and that he would have received, in the day, the last sacrament, but for the decided opposition of Dr. Seignebos, who had declared that the slightest excitement might kill his patient. "And if he dies," said M. de Chandore, "that is the finishing stroke.
"Ah," sighed Agnes, "that is true, my father, woe is me! Please tell me how I could have helped it. I was pleased before I knew it." "And you have been thinking of what he said to you with pleasure since?" pursued the confessor, with an intense severity of manner, deepening as he spoke. "I have thought of it," faltered Agnes. "Beware how you trifle with the holy sacrament! Answer frankly.
Because Extreme Unction is in itself a separate and distinct Sacrament a special anointing with prayers for the sick. Oil is used in Extreme Unction as in Confirmation as a sign of strength; for as the priest applies the holy oil in the Sacrament, the grace of the Sacrament is taking effect upon the soul.
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