You listen to me with the greatest kindness when I relate my troubles to You, and You have always balm to pour on my wounds. I find You everywhere. You never go away! If I have to change my dwelling, I find You there wherever I go. You are never weary of listening to me. You are never tired of doing me good. I am certain of being beloved by You if I love You; my goods are nothing to You, and by bestowing Yours on me You never grow poor; however miserable I may be, no one more noble or holier can come between You and me and deprive me of Your friendship; and Death, which tears us away from all other friends, will unite me forever to You. All the humiliations attached to old age, or to the loss of honor, will never detach You from me; on the contrary, I shall never enjoy You more fully, and You will never be closer to me than when everything seems to conspire against me, to overwhelm me, and to cast me down.
You bear with all my faults with extreme patience, and even my want of fidelity and my ingratitude do not wound You to such a degree as to make You unwilling to receive me back when I return to You, or to come to me when I call on You. O Jesus! grant that I may die praising You, that I may die for the love of You. Amen.
To the Holy Name of Jesus
O JESUS, sweet Jesus, O Jesus divine.
My life and my death unto Thee I resign:
Every action of mine shall Thy patronage claim;
For whatever I do shall be done in Thy Name.
If I walk, sweetest Jesus my footsteps shall guide;
If I sit, dearest Jesus shall be by my side;
And the greatest of joys I shall deem it to be.
In the night-time to watch, O my Jesus, with Thee.
When, with sleep overcome, my eyelids shall close.
Still breathing Thy love will I take my repose;
And when using my pen it shall be my delight
The adorable Name of my Jesus to write.
