My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

and abhor them, because they are. an offense to Thee,
my sovereign good. Grant me, 0 grant me pardon
for them all! 0 may I die, I beseech Thee, by Thy
loving Heart, may I die rather than offend Thee, and
may I live only to correspond to Thy love.
Say the Our Fat her once, the Glory be to the Father
five times; and then:
0 sweetest Heart of Jesus ! I implore
That I may ever love thee more and more.
2. My Jesus! I bless Thy most humhle Heart; and
I give thanks to Thee, Who, in making it my model,
not only dost urge me with much pressing to imitate it,
but, at the cost of so many humiliations, dost Thyself
stoop to int me out the path and smooth for me the
way to foEw ~hee. Foolish and ungrateful that I am,
how have I wandered far away from Thee! Mercy,
my Jesus, mercy! Away, hateful pride and love of
worldly honor ! With lowly heart I wish to follow Thee,
my Jesus, through humiliations and the cross, and
thus to gain peace and salvation. Only be Thou at
hand to strengthen me, and I will ever bless Thy sacred
Heart.
Our Father once, Glory be to the Father five times.
0 sweetest Ileart of Jesus, etc.
3. My Jesus! I marvel at Thy most patient Heart,
and I thank Thee for all those wondrous examples of
unwearied patience which Thou didst leave me to
guide me on my way. It grieves me that I have still
to reproach myself with my extravagant delicacy,
shrinking from the slightest pain. Oh, pour, then, into
my heart, dear Jesus, eager and enduring love of
suffering and of the cross, of mortification and d
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