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 my sorrow and my tears, that, by reason of my exceeding unworthiness, my soul must go away fasting from thine uncloying banquet. And now, O thou who hast formed my substance and reformed it when fallen and decayed, I beseech thee so to prepare me by thine all-powerful wisdom, and by the tender compassionate love of thy Heart, that I may worthily receive thee into my soul, and that thou mayest work and perfect in me without impediment all that thou hast from eternity decreed concerning me, according to the good pleasure of thy divine will. Amen.

To this end say, if you have time, a Pater noster, as our Lord taught St. Mechtilde. 

Almighty love, I praise thee; O most ravish in thy sweet Love, I glorify thee; O most gentle and tender Love, I magnify thee in and for all the good which thy most glorious Godhead and thy most blessed Humanity have ever wrought in us, or shall hereafter work in us, through that most august and adorable instrument, thy divine Heart. Amen.

EHOLD, O Heavenly Father, our holy Mother the Church has sent up before thee from thine altar that Victim of transcendent worth whom thou didst send to be immolated for