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THE CROWN OF THE YEAR
Weekly Paragraphs for the Holy Sacrament
By Austin Farrer
Dacre Press, Westminster
EPIPHANY iii

THE words of the Centurion appeared to our ancestors so typical of Christian faith, that they made them a standing part of this holy sacrament.  The priest about to receive the body of Christ into his own body strikes his breast and says, ‘Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof: speak but the word, and my soul shall be healed’.  But while it is the character of human faith to be content with whatever God is pleased to give, it is the character of divine love to give without measure.  The worshipper says ‘I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof’.  But Christ says, as he said to Zacchaeus, ‘Make haste, for I must lodge with thee today’.