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Experience has shown that a chain of proportion runs
through this sequence. Accord ingly the doubling of the
number of the initial contacts (which is definitely within our
power) will double the number of conver sions.
“That they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in
you, may they also be in us.” (Jn 17:21)
“Take away Our Blessed Lady’s contribution to the Gospel
testimony, efface her testimony to Christianity, and you find not
simply a link broken, but the very fastening of the whole chain
wanting; not merely a gap, or a break, made in the structure, but the
foundation gone. The belief in the wonders wrought in the
Incarnation, the belief of ages, the belief of the world, rest upon one
point of testimony, a unit, a single voice — that of the Blessed Virgin
Mary.” (Cardinal Wiseman: The Actions of the New Testa ment)

5. THE HOLY EUCHARIST AS AN INSTRUMENT
OF CONVERSION
Too much time is often spent on arguments which — even
if they are proved—do not attract to the Church. The aim in
all discussions should be to make those outside the Church
catch a glimpse of the treasures which are within. There is no
more effective way of doing this than by the presentation of
the doctrine of the Eucharist.
Even those who know Jesus dimly and uncomprehendingly
are lost in admiration of him. On the strength of human
evidence they acknowledge that he exercised an unexampled
power over nature, so that the elements obeyed him; the dead
returned to life; and infirmities fled at his command. He did
all these things directly of his own power, because, though
man, he was likewise the Eternal God himself, who made all
things, whose word is might.
The Scriptures tell how once that God-man — among
innumerable other wonders — accomplished the sweet
miracle of the Eucharist. “Jesus took bread, and blessed, and
broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said ‘Take, eat; this is
my body’.” (Mt 26:26) This is a mighty scripture, but for how
many has it not been a sealed one? “This teaching is difficult;
who can accept it?” (Jn 6:60) The objection of some even of
his own disciples has echoed down through the centuries to
the infinite loss of souls: “How can this man give us his flesh
to eat?” (Jn 6:52) Those disciples could almost be pardoned