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304 (132) +O my Jesus, my only hope, thank You for the book which You have opened
before my soul‟s eyes. That book is Your Passion which You underwent for love of me. It
is from this book that I have learned how to love God and souls. In this book there are
found for us inexhaustible treasures. O Jesus, how few souls understand You in Your
martyrdom of love! Oh, how great is the fire of purest love which burns in Your Most
Sacred Heart! Happy the soul that has come to understand the love of the Heart of
Jesus!
305 It is my greatest desire that souls should recognize You as their eternal happiness, that
they should come to believe in Your goodness and glorify Your infinite mercy.
306 I asked the Lord to grant me the grace that my nature be immune and resist the
influences that sometimes try to draw me away from the spirit of our rule and from the
minor regulations. These minor transgressions are like little moths that try to destroy the
spiritual life within us, and they surely will destroy it if the soul is aware of these minor
transgressions and yet disregards them as small things. I can see nothing that is small in
the religious life. Little matter if I am sometimes the object of vexation and jeers, as long
as my spirit remains in harmony with the spirit of the rules, the vows, and the religious
statutes.
O my Jesus, delight of my heart, You know my desires. I should like to hide from
people‟s sight so as to be like one alive and yet not living. I want to live pure as a wild
flower; I want my love always to be turned to You, just as a flower that is always turning to
the sun. I want the fragrance and the freshness of the flower of my heart to be always
preserved for You alone. I want to live beneath Your divine gaze, for You alone are
enough for me. When I am with You, Jesus, I fear nothing, for nothing can do me harm.
307 (133) + 1934. Once during Lent, I saw a great light and a great darkness over house and
chapel. I saw the struggle of these two powers….
308 1934, Holy Thursday. Jesus said to me, I desire that you make an offering of yourself
for sinners and especially for those souls who have lost hope in God‟s mercy.
God and Souls. An Act of Oblation.
309 Before heaven and earth, before all the choirs of Angels, before the Most Holy Virgin
Mary, before all the Powers of heaven, I declare to the One Triune God that today, in
union with Jesus Christ, Redeemer of souls, I make a voluntary offering of myself for the
conversion of sinners, especially for those souls who have lost hope in God‟s mercy. This
offering consists in my accepting, with total subjection to God‟s will, all the sufferings,
fears and terrors with which sinners are filled. In return, I give them all the consolations
which my soul receives from my communion with God. In a word, I offer everything for
them: Holy Masses, Holy Communions, penances, mortifications, prayers. I do not fear
the blows, blows of divine justice, because I am united with Jesus. O my God, in this way
I want to make amends to You for the souls that do not trust in Your goodness. I hope
against all hope in the ocean of Your mercy. My Lord and my God, my portion – my
portion forever, I do not base this act of oblation on my own strength, but on the strength
that flows from the merits of Jesus Christ. I will daily repeat this act of self-oblation by
pronouncing the following prayer which you Yourself have taught me, Jesus:
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