the consecrated Host, to the transfigured Saviour, to God; for we read in St. John, that this is " eternal life — to know Thee — the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."
Brethren, the vision, the possession, of God, and that alone, is heaven, just as the loss of God, and that alone, is hell. Our yearning for happiness will not be appeased by shadows of God's perfections such as creatures are; it demands the reality — God Himself. " When Thy glory shall have appeared," says the Psalmist, " I shall be satisfied." And never sooner — and why? " Because," says St. John, " we will be like Him when we see Him as He is." Our happiness and that of God will be identical, consisting in the contemplation of Himself — the all-true, the all-good, the all-beautiful. As the moon and stars catching the sun's rays are made to resemble the sun itself, so the beatified souls shine like the Sun of Justice Himself, in the kingdom of their Father. The riches of the beatific vision fill the measure of all our heart's desires. " I am thy reward, exceeding great," says the Lord. Our soul with its memory, understanding, and will, is a triangle of infinite extent, which this earthly globe can never fill, which nothing can ever fill but that other infinite triangle, the three in one — the triune God, who fills it with good measure and pressed down and flowing over. Besides the riches of the Divinity, we will enjoy in heaven unlimited power — a certain omnipotence. Our wills shall be so attuned to that of God, that our wish becomes His and His ours, so that of us as of Him it
