The Raccolta (1857)/Chaplet of Acts of the Love of God, etc.
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CHAPLET OF ACTS OF THE LOVE OF GOD, ETC.
i. THE INDULGENCE OF 300 DAYS, daily.
Moreover, to those who shall recite it frequently in the month, i.e. at least ten times, he granted besides the said Partial Indulgence
ii. THE PLENARY INDULGENCE once a year, on any one day when, having Confessed and Communicated, they shall visit some church and pray to God according to the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.THE CHAPLET OF ACTS OF LOVE.
1. My God, my only good, would that I had always loved Thee.
2. My God, I abhor the time when I loved Thee not.
3. How could I ever live so long without Thy holy love?
4. And Thou too, my God, how couldst Thou suffer me so long?
5. My God, I give Thee thanks for Thy great patience.
6. But I will love Thee now for ever.
7. I had sooner die than love Thee not.
8. Take from me my life, my God, if I am not to love Thee.
9. This grace I beg of Thee, my God, ever to love Thee.
10. Blessed shall I be, my God, with Thy most holy love.
Gloria Patri, &c.
1. My God, fain would I see Thee loved.
2. Thrice happy me, could I but shed my blood that all might love Thee.
3. Blind is he who loves Thee not.
4. My God, give me Thy holy light.
5. There is no woe but not to love Thee, sole and chief Good.
6. My God, let me never be one of those wretched blind ones who love Thee not.
7. My God, be Thou my joy, my good, my all.
8. Fain would I be wholly Thine for ever.
9. Who shall ever separate me from Thy holy love?
10. Come, ye creatures of God, love ye my God.
Gloria Patri, &c.
1. My God, had I a thousand hearts, I'd love Thee with them all.
2. Would that all hearts of all men loved Thee.
3. Glad would I be that there were many worlds, that all might love Thee.
4. Blest would he be who could love Thee with all the hearts of all possible creatures.
5. To be so loved, my God, is Thy just meed.
6. Too poor a heart have I, too cold, to love Thee.
7. O ye cold hearts of men, why love ye not your Good?
8. O ye blind wretched worldlings, why know ye not your Love?
9. Thrice blest, ye heavenly host, who know and love your God!
10. O blest necessity to love God evermore.
Gloria Patri, &c.
1. My God, when shall I burn with love for Thee?
2. O happy, much loved lot, will it be ever mine ?
3. Not knowing how myself to love Thee, at least I give Thee thanks that there are so many others who indeed do love Thee with their whole hearts.
4. I am exceeding glad that Thou art loved by all angels and all saints in heaven.
5. Then to their love I join the love of my poor heart.
6. And in especial manner I fain would love Thee with the love Thy holy ones who loved Thee best have loved Thee.
7. Wherefore I intend to love Thee with the love of Mary Magdalen, of Catherine, and of Teresa.
8. Or with the love of Augustine, Dominic, Francis Xavier, Philip Neri, and Louis Gonzaga.
9. Or with the very love of Thine Apostles, specially Peter, Paul, and the beloved Disciple.
10. Or the love of Joseph the great Patriarch.
Gloria Patri, &c.
1. Fain would I love Thee with a love like that of Mary most holy while here on earth.
2. Fain would I love Thee with a love like that with which she loved Thee when she conceived in her virgin womb Thy well-beloved Son, or when she brought Him forth, or when she suckled Him, or when she saw Him die.
3. Yet more, I would love Thee with a love like that with which she loves Thee, and will love Thee in heaven.
4. Nay but not even this love is enough to love Thee with, my God: Thee, God of goodness infinite.
5. Wherefore I would love Thee as Thy Son, the Divine Word made Man, did love Thee.
6. As He loved Thee when He was conceived and born.
7. As He loved Thee when He died upon the cross.
8. As He loves Thee ever in those sacred tabernacles where He lies hid.
9. And with that very love with which He loves Thee, and will love Thee ever in heaven for all eternity.
10. Lastly, I intend to love Thee with that love with which Thou lovest Thyself; and since that is impossible, grant me, O my God, of Thy tender pity, that I may love Thee with all my mind and all my powers, and as Thou willest I should love Thee. Amen and amen.
Gloria Patri, &c.
Oremus.
Deus, qui diligentibus Te bona invisibilia præparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum; ut Te in omnibus, et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quæ omne desiderium superant, consequamur. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, etc.
Let us pray.
O God, who hast prepared all good things for them that love Thee; pour into our hearts such a desire of Thy love, that we, loving Thee in all and above all, may finally attain Thy heavenly promises, which exceed all that we can desire. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.