moment that the angels rejoiced over one sinner doing penance. I am indeed blind and ungrateful! But the Heart of Jesus ! O the Heart of Jesus ! what consolation it felt — what thanksgiving, what delight, what sorrow for me; sorrow and joy, sorrow that I thought so little about such magnificent favours; — joy that God at least was appeased, and reconciled to justify me again. The Heart of Jesus then, has loved for me when I would not love — has thanked God for me fervently when I thanked Him only a little. And now I stand indebted ! My debts have accumulated since first I drew breath. The Heart of Jesus has done all these good offices for me, and the time has come to make payment. I owe gratitude, I owe thanksgiving, I owe sorrow, I owe reparation — I owe an act of love and thanksgiving for each of those times that the Sacred Heart made those acts for me. Let me look back and remember, and see how often.
ASPIRATION.
Heart of Jesus, wounded for my sins, have mercy on me. Give me, O Jesus, wherewith to pay thee ! Ego vero egenus et pauper sum; Deus adjuva me !
ACT OF REPARATION IN HONOUR OF THE SACRED HEART.
O MOST amiable and adorable Heart of Jesus, centre of all hearts, glowing with charity, and inflamed with zeal for the interests of thy Father and the salvation of mankind! O Heart, ever sensible of our misery, and ever in motion to redress our evils; the real victim of love in the Holy Eucharist, and a propitiatory sacrifice for sin on the altar of the cross; since the generality of Christians make no
