The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of the Blessed Sacrament in revitalizing spiritual life and fostering a sense of resurrection in the twentieth century.
Pope Leo XIII asserts that for the twentieth century to genuinely reflect themes of resurrection and life, it must prioritize the veneration and significance of the Blessed Sacrament. The Blessed Sacrament symbolizes the presence of Christ and serves as a source of spiritual renewal, essential for revitalizing faith and embodying the ideals of hope and renewal in a rapidly changing world.
In practice
During a sermon, the priest may reference this quote to inspire parishioners to focus on their spiritual lives.
Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ.
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.
The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
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