I also may be able to say: "Who shall separate me from the love of Christ?" (Rom. viii. 35.) What good shall there ever be in the world that shall separate me from my Jesus? And Thou, my Saviour, if Thou art all mine, know that I am all Thine. Dispose of me, and of all that belongs to me, as shall best please Thee. And how can I refuse anything to a God Who has not refused me His Blood and His Life? Mary, my Mother, do Thou guard me with thy protection. I will no longer be my own. I will be all my Saviour's. Do thou help me to be faithful; I trust in thee.
To Jesus afflicted at the Sight of our Sins.
From the very first moment of His existence Jesus beheld every single fault of every one of us, and each sin afflicted Him immeasurably.
Y beloved Jesus, I who have offended Thee
am not worthy of Thy favors, but through
the merit of that pain which Thou didst
suffer, and which Thou didst offer up to God at the
sight of my sins, and to satisfy divine justice for
m them, give me a share in that light by which Thou
didst see their malice, and in that hatred with which
Thou didst then abominate them. Can it then be
true, my amiable Saviour, that ever since Thou wast
an Infant, and in every moment of Thy life, I have
been a murderer of Thy Sacred Heart, and a murderer more cruel than all those who crucified Thee?
And I have renewed and increased this suffering
every time I have repeated my offences against
Thee? O Lord! Thou hast indeed died to save me;
but Thy death will not save me, if I do not on my
part detest every evil, and have true sorrow for the
sins I have committed against Thee. But even this
sorrow must be given me by Thee. Thou givest it
to him that asks it of Thee. I ask it of Thee through
the merits of all the sufferings Thou didst endure on
