A MAP OF LIFE but now ever living: just as in Heaven He continuously offers Himself, the Victim slain upon Calvary, but now ever living. The Mass is really Heaven as it were breaking through to earth to be seen of men. But the priest does not only consecrate: he consumes : he receives Our Lord, whole and living, into his body just as the apostles did. And the congregation likewise may receive Him, This is Communion, the Blessed Eucharist, receiveth Christ Himself into ourselves. “He that eateth Me, the same shall live by Me.” The members of Christ’s Mystical Body have as their proper food nothing less than Christ Himself — “the Life.” Other food gives life: this food is life. Our situation as Catholics may be seen in its simplest elements. By baptism we are built into the Body of Christ, and as cells in the Body we are able to live with the life of the Body. The condition of all life in God is prayer: our prayer in the Body culminates in the supreme prayer of the Mass: and from the Mass we receive Christ Himself to be the food of our Ufe in the Body. Communion, then, is God’s supreme gift to us upon earth. Everything in our life is vitalized by it. Baptism leads up to it, everything else flows from it. THE SACRAMENTS But there are other ways in which the life of Christ flows to the individual cell. Beside Baptisin and the 114