bind and unite me entirely to thy heart. I resolve this day, with the assistance of thy grace, to do all in my power to please thee, and for thy sake to trample under foot all human respect, every inclination or repugnance, all pleasures and comforts, which may be in any way hindrances to the perfect accomplishment of thy will. Grant, O Lord, that I may keep this resolution, so that henceforth all my actions, and all my feelings and affections, may be in all things conformable to thy will. O love of God, banish from my heart all other love! O Mary, my hope, thou art all-powerful with God; obtain for me the grace to be until death the faithful servant of Jesus and of his pure love. Amen! Amen! Behold my hope and my desire, for time and for eternity.
Short prayer to remember and repeat. — “ Who shall separate me from the charity of Christ?”
The Spiritual Communion, page 823.
FOR SATURDAY.
O HOW beautiful a sight it was to behold our dear Redeemer that day when, “weary with his journey,” but full of sweetness and love, he was seated by the fountain, waiting for the Samaritan woman, to convert and save her! “Jesus therefore sat thus on the well.” {John iv. 6.) Does it not seem that the same thing is repeated every day, when, descending from heaven upon our altars, he remains there as if by the side of so many fountains of grace, waiting for souls, and inviting them to keep him company for a little while at least, that he may draw them in this way to his perfect love? From each altar where Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament he seems to
