ETERNAL Father! I offer thee to-day all the virtues, the acts, and the affections of the Heart of Jesus. Accept them on my behalf; and through his merits, which are all mine, since he has given them to me, grant me those graces which Jesus asks for me. For all thy mercies shown to me I offer thee my thanks, in union with those same merits. Through them also I hope to satisfy for what is still due to thy justice for my sins. Through them, finally, I hope for every grace at thy hand, for pardon, for perseverance, for paradise, and above all, for the gift of thy pure love. I see clearly that in all I do, I only put obstacles in the way of this, but to this evil apply a remedy also. I ask it of thee in the name of Jesus Christ, who has promised us “that thou wilt grant all we ask of thee in his name ” (John xiv.), and therefore thou canst not refuse me. Lord! my only desire is to love thee, to give myself entirely to thee, and no longer to remain so ungrateful as I have been hitherto. Look upon me, and grant my prayer. From this very day may I be thoroughly converted to thee, never to fall away from thy love again. My God, I love thee! Infinite Goodness, I love thee! I love thee, for thou art indeed my love, my paradise, my good, my life, my all.
Short prayer to remember and repeat. — “ My Jesus! my all! it is thy will to have me thine, and my will is to have thee mine.”
The Spiritual Communion, page 323.
FOR FRIDAY.
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