vouchsafe to confirm and accept my love.
7. And because thou desirest me, most gracious Lord, to love my neighbour also, I thank thee for giving me so delightful a precept; and I therefore force my will to love him to the utmost of my power. I desire to love him; and I pray thee to give him every blessing that may make him happier, and more acceptable to thee. And I pray especially for N.N., for whom my rebellious will entertains some aversion.
Forgive them, I entreat thee, all their sins; and grant that they may lay hold on the necessary means for attaining everlasting life; and if thou knowest it to be expedient for me to be without some gift of thine which thou grantest to them, behold, O Lord my God, I refuse it not. I am exceedingly glad for the love which thou displayest towards them, and for the perfection with which thou adornest them; and for this I return thee the greatest thanks.
8. And if, by thy permission, it should happen to me
to be annoyed and offended
by any one, I entreat thee notwithstanding, beforehand, to
give him pardon for his fault,
and life eternal. And this I
do, because thou lovest him;
and I desire in all things to
be conformed to thee, that
I may never wish any thing
but what thou thyself wishest, my Lord and my God.
Amen.
v.
Act of Adoration to the Most Holy Trinity
Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God.[1]
The worship of Latria, which is paid to God alone, is an internal and, at the same time, an external act, by which a rational creature honours God by humbling himself, with the intention of adoring him and confessing him to be God. O God of immeasurable majesty and greatness, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
x. With all the submission and humility I am capable of, in the presence of thy divine majesty, O my God, I acknowledge myself thy creature, and the work of thy hands, dependent on thee for every, thing. I acknowledge thee to be the absolute - Lord of all, most worthy to be esteemed and honoured as such by all. Prostrate on the ground, with the deepest and most heartfelt submission, I adore thee, out of the depths
- ↑ Luke iv. 8.
