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must realise that man has to live amid material things and that his salvation is to a large extent bound up with them. (page 78)

In all those whom they served they were to see the Person of Jesus Christ himself. What they did to those others -- even the weakest and the lowest -- they were to remember that they did it to Our Lord himself, according to his own words: "Truly, I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me." (Mt 25:40) (page 51)

The Eucharist is the infinite good. For in the sacrament is Jesus himself, as much present as he was in his home at Nazareth or in the Upper Room at Jerusalem. (page 49)

Saint Pius X, especially, has set out vividly the doctrine of the universal mediation of Mary and of her spiritual Maternity in his beautiful Encyclical Ad Diem Illum, which is substantially but a transposition of Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort's book of the True Devotion. (page 344)

And so, imitating her, thanking her tenderly, rejoicing and sorrowing with her, giving her what Dante calls 'the long study and the great love,' bringing some thought of her into every prayer and work and act of the spiritual life, forgetting itself and its own resources to depend on her; the soul of the legionary becomes so filled with the image and thought of her that the two souls are but one soul.