Rev. Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange shows in Chapter XV, "Normal Spiritual Progress and Daily Communion," of his great work The Love of God and the Cross of Jesus, (trans. Sister Jeanne Marie, O. P. Vol. 1. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1951), how the facilitation of frequent and daily Holy Communion that has been vouchsafed to Christendom thanks to the paternal loving-kindess and prudence of the Roman Pontiffs, should enable us to advance in the interior life and attain to the perfection of charity with more celerity and ease.

The two decrees that are chiefly responsible for the great accesability to Holy Communion are: the Decree Sacra Tridentina Synodus promulgated on 20 December 1905 by authority of Pope St. Pius X (De quotidiana Ss. Eucharistiae sumpstione; Acta Sanctae Sedis, vol. xxxviii., pp. 400-406), which definitively ended the old controversies regarding the daily reception of Holy Communion; and the Motu Proprio Sacram Communionem [A.A.S., vol. xlix., pp. 177-178] promulgated by Pope Pius XII, which mitigated the ancient Eucharistic fast with the following condition:

All who enjoy these concessions are to endeavor seriously to compensate for the benefits received by becoming illustrious examples of the Christian life, especially by works of penance and charity (Omnes denique, qui his facultatibus perfruentur, collatum beneficium pro viribus rependere satagant fulgentioribus christianae vitae exemplis, praesertim poenitentiae et caritatis operibus).

[Ed. The English translation of the Motu Proprio was taken from The Pope Speaks: Addresses and Publications of the Holy Father (Vol. 4, no. 1, Summer 1957, pp. 7-8)]

There is no excuse for mediocrity or retarded progress in the interior life now that the Author of grace Himself is available in Holy Communion to those who have the great fortune of attending Holy Mass, having received absolution in the Tribunal of Penance if necessary. This all the more true for Priests and Religious who either offer or attend Holy Mass daily. There is no excuse for the present day clergy to not attain to the lofty apices of the interior life, even unto mystical contemplation; for the active life that the Pastoral care of souls entails and the resplendent glimpse of the contemplative life that the offering of the Holy Mass and recitation the Divine Office offers can be united in imitation of the holy Apostles and of our Lord Himself, who spent nights in prayer and the days preaching the sacred doctrines of His Gospel and working miracles.

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