"Sacramental Thought"

We continue our review of Abbot Vonier's "A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist."   This is taken from Chapter 5, "Sacramental Thought:"

The stream of sacramental grace is truly the flow of the Blood of Christ: in one way or another every sacrament is the fire of Christ's love when He was dying on the Cross.

Perhaps the most satisfying line of sacramental thought is to visualize the sacraments as mysterious carriers of all the powers that are in Christ's death.  "The power of Christ's passion," say Saint Thomas, "is joined to us (copulatur nobis) through faith and through the sacraments, yet in different ways; for the contact (continuatio) which is through faith takes place through the act of the soul, but the contact which is through the sacraments takes place though the use of external things."

St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.