MYSTERY OF THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST.

last day. . . . Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him;30 and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets: "And they shall all be taught of God." Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me. Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it he may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. . . . Amen, amen, I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.31 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I

JUDAS-PHARISAICAL TRADITIONS IN OPPOSITION TO GOD'S

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live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the

same also shall live by me.

that came down from heaven.

This is the bread

Not as your fa

He that

thers did eat manna, and are dead. eateth this bread, shall live for ever.... Doth this scandalise you? If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before ?32 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you that believe not. Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

WILL you also go away? .

Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

HYPOCRITES, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: "This people honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men."34 For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washings of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these. Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. For Moses said:

NO DEFILEMENT FROM WITHOUT-BLINDNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES-THE HEART THE SOURCE OF SIN.

"Honour thy father and thy mother;" and "He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.” But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban 35 (which is a gift), whatsoever is from me shall profit thee. And farther you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother. Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such-like things you do.

HEAR me, ye all, and understand. There is nothing36 from without a man that, entering into him, can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

EVERY plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

ARE you also yet without understanding? Do you not understand, that every thing from without, entering into a man, cannot defile him: because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? But the things which proceed out of

THE WOMAN OF CANAAN-CURE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB MAN -MIRACLE OF THE SEVEN LOAVES.

the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man. For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,—false testimonies,— covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel. ... Suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.... O woman, great is thy faith; be it done to thee as thou wilt. . For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

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EPHPHETA, Be thou opened.

I HAVE Compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat. And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; for some of them came from afar off.... How many loaves have you?

WHEN you see a cloud rising from the west,