I
feel like one of those people who ran after Him and asked Him what
they could do to be saved. I feel when I look at what has been done
here as if I must go to each of these poor people in turn and beg
them to bring me to the feet of Christ, just as I suppose on the
shores of the sea of Galilee people must have begged St. Peter or
St. Andrew or St. James or St. John to introduce them, if one can
use such a word for such an occasion. This seems to me the great
work that Father Rowley has effected in this parish. I have only
had one rather shy talk with him about religion, and in the course
of it I said something in praise of what his personality had
effected.
"My personality has effected nothing," he answered. "Everything
here is effected by the Blessed Sacrament."
That is why he surely has the right without any consideration for
the dignity of churchy young men to box their ears if they question
his outward respect for the Blessed Sacrament. Even Our Lord found
it necessary at least on one occasion to chase the buyers and
sellers out of the Temple, and though it is not recorded that He
boxed the ears of any Pharisee, it seems to me quite permissible to
believe that He did! He lashed them with scorn anyway.
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