No time more opportune than the present could be chosen to place before the public this little volume by St. Peter Julian Eymard. The saint left numerous manuscript notes on the Most Blessed Sacrament. These notes were the fruits of his own Adoration and they served for the basis of his sermons. He practised what he preached, he preached as he had prayed, and what he had said to Our Lord in the secrecy of his own heart, he repeated aloud for the instruction and edification of his hearers.
The Real Presence will afford food for deep and serious meditation. Its pages are studded with Eucharistic jewels just as they fell from the lips of the ardent Apostle of the Holy Eucharist.
No sentence from the writings of this saint can fail to give strength and courage and comfort to all lovers of our Eucharistic Lord. May his words help to establish the reign of Jesus Christ in the hearts of the Faithful!
He is in the Eucharist as in the womb of His Blessed Mother, enveloped and concealed by the Sacred Species. Behold the poverty of Jesus!
