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and for all my negligenoes, whereby I have offended
Thy tender goodness, and defiled my soul, which Thou
didst ransom with Thine own most precious blood.
How shall I presume to receive Thee into a heart all
surrounded with briers and thorns of earthly attachments,
reeking with unwholesome vapors of worldhess
and vain desires ! But, my merciful Jesus, though I am
sick of soul, I remember the words which fell from
Thine own gracious lips- that they who are whole
need not the physician, but they who are sick - and
this gives me confnlence. Surely, my Lord, if any one
has cause to trust Thee it is I! Others may have their
inno~nce or their virtues to fall back upon, but I have
Thy mercy, Thy great ntercy, only. I have made myself
undesening of it, but when hast Thou ever treated me
as I deserved? Where should I be now if justice and
not mercy had had its way? Good Jesus, Who didst
invite the blind and the lame, the poor and the needy,
to Thy supper, behold, as one of them, yea, even as the
poorest and most wretched of them all, I will draw
near to the most sacred feast of Thy body and blood,
the banquet of the angels, not in presumption, but with
a Gntrite and humble heart, with lowly confidence,
with hope in Thy goodness and mercy, with love in
return for all Thy love, with fervent desire to please
Thee, to live henceforth according to Thy Spirit, and
in the imitation of the virtues of Thy sacred Heart
that I may praise and glorify Thee eternally. .
E COMES to Me Who is the Judge of the living
35 and the dead. Before Him the pillars of heaven
tremble, and the pure angels veil their faces with their
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