to please thee according to thy desire. Let me no more desire nor seek for any other pleasure than to please thee, to visit thee often at thy altar, to converse with thee, and to receive thee in the holy Communion. Let them look for other goods who will. For me, I love only, I desire only the treasure of thy love. The only favour I ask at the foot of this altar is, that I may forget myself altogether, only to remember thy goodness. Blessed Seraphs, I do not envy you your glory! but by the love you bear to your God and mine, O teach me what I must do, to love him and please him like you!
Short prayer to remember and repeat. — “ O my Jesus, thee only I love, thee only will I please! ”
To conclude, make your Spiritual Communion. See Prayers for Spiritual Communion, at page 323.
FOR MONDAY.
JESUS addresses to every soul that visits him in the most Holy Sacrament, the same words addressed to the sacred Spouse of the Canticles: "Arise, make haste, my love, my beautiful one, and come.” (Cant, ii.) Soul, who comest to visit me, arise! come out from all thy misery; I am here to enrich thee with graces. Come near to me: do not fear my majesty, which has humbled itself in this Sacrament, in order to take away thy fear and to inspire thee with confidence. Thou art my friend. Yes! no longer my enemy, but my beloved friend, since thou lovest me, and I love thee also. Thou art my beautiful one, for my grace has made thee beautiful. Come then, come and unite thyself to me, and with the greatest confidence ask what thou wilt. It is St. Teresa who says that this great King of glory has put on the appearance of bread in the Holy Sacrament, and hidden his majesty from our eyes, in order to encourage us to
