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will be opened, and they will know him in the breaking of the
Bread Divine. (Lk 24:13-35)
In this recognition of the Eucharist, the misconceptions
and prejudices which chilled the understanding and darkened
the view of heaven, melt away like snowflakes in a burning
sun, so that he who had walked unseeing will exclaim with
overflowing heart: “One thing I do know, that though I was
blind, now I see.” (Jn 9:25)
“Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is Mary receiving in her
capacity as universal dispenser of grace the full and absolute disposal
of the Eucharist and of the graces which it comprises. For this
Sacrament is the most efficacious means of salvation, the most
excellent fruit of the redemption brought by Jesus Christ.
Consequently, it is for her to make Jesus known and loved in this
Sacrament. It is for her to spread the Eucharist all over the world, to
multiply churches and to plant them among infidel peoples, to
defend the belief in the Eucharist against heretics and the impious. It
is her work to prepare souls for Communion, to move them to visit
frequently the Blessed Sacrament and watch constantly before it.
Mary is the treasury of all the graces which the Eucharist contains, of
all which lead to it, of all which flow from it.” (Tesnière: Mois de
Notre-Dame du T. S. Sacrement)

6. THE IRRELIGIOUS POPULATIONS
There is the awful problem of irreligion on a great scale. In
very many of the world’s centres of population, entire
districts, which are nominally Catholic, are leading lives in
which Mass or the sacra ments or even prayer play no part
whatsoever. In one such case, a survey discovered only 75
practising Catholics out of a total popula tion of 20,000. In
another case, 400 attended Mass out of 30,000, and in
another 40,000 out of 900,000. Only too frequently the
irreligion of such areas is left to fester and to grow in peace.
No effort worthy of the name is made to deal with it. It is
argued that direct approach would be fruitless or would be
resented, and perhaps prove dangerous. And, strange to say,
such arguments are accepted even by those who think it
natural that missionaries should go to the ends of the earth to
face danger and even death.
The saddest thing about such places is that the clergy are
practically debarred from that direct approach. One of the
dire complications of the frenzy of irreligion is that its victims