Excerpt from The Eucharistic Offering: Spiritual Instructions Upon the Office of Holy Communion, Together With Helps for the Carrying Out of the Same Privileges involve duties. No Sin is more delete tious in its effects than that of abusing the spiritual gifts of god. And so the growing frequency of Eucharists and of the opportunities of receiving the Communion suggests a distinct danger - that of not discerning as we should the scope of the Sacra mental action, and the Body of the lord. It is a time to be thoughtful. It maybe, that in former years, when men and women communed rarely, they did so with more careful preparation and in bet ter mood than most of us do to-dav. Perhaps there is greater need than there has been for some years, of care, reflection, and intellectual exercise on the solemn themes of religion at all events, they form a necessary part of the preparation for the Altar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.