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THOU art my glory and the exultation of my heart.

THOU art my hope and my refuge in the day of tribulation.

BUT because I am as yet weak in love and imperfect in virtue, therefore do I stand in need of being strengthened and comforted by Thee. Wherefore do Thou visit me often and instruct me in Thy holy discipline.

FREE me from evil passions and cure my heart of all disorderly affections; so that inwardly healed and well purified, I may become apt to love, courageous to suffer, and steadfast to persevere.

O MY God, my Love, Thou art all mine, and I am all Thine.

ENLARGE Thou me in love, that I may learn to taste with the interior