"Destiny is always jumbling up the pattern of our lives like
the patterns in a kaleidoscope. You can't avoid it, even by entering holy
religion; you take a vow of stability, only to find that life is one long round
of packing. The charmed circle is always being broken up; we are separated from
the people we have grown accustomed to. But do let's get it clearly in our
heads that there can be no real separation, in life or in death, as long as we
stick to the Holy Mass. In Christ we are all one; the sacred Host is the focus
in which all our rays meet, regardless of time and space. Only we must keep
true to him; only we must all go on saying that prayer the priest says before
his Communion, asking that though he is separated from everything else he may
never be separated from our Blessed Lord; A te
numquam, a te numquam, a te numquam separari permittas."
-Msgr. Ronald Knox (The Mass in Slow Motion)
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