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 honey, living stream of all goodness and all grace. Hail, loving Heart of Jesus, most noble treasury of the riches of God. I bless and salute thee a thousand and a thousand fold in the divine Goodness, that thou art the Fountain and Source whence all good and all mercy stream forth. O noble and precious Heart of Jesus Christ, I salute and adore thee, through the mutual complacency of the worshipful Trinity, in the abundance of all graces, wherewith thou dost evermore inundate all holy and devout souls, whom thou hast so often bedewed and inebriated with the torrent of thy divine pleasures.

O Heart of Jesus, Heart most sweet; Heart of Jesus, Heart most precious; Heart of Jesus, Heart most worthy of love; O Heart flowing with sweetness, abounding with pity, overflowing with charity; in thy most hidden recesses I plunge my spirit, and in the great deep of thy mercy I bury all the burden of my iniquity and my negligence. To thee I offer all my labours and my toils, to thee I dedicate all my anguish and my misery, to thee I commend my life, and the end of my life. O Heart, sweet-smelling spikenard, frankincense most fragrant, most worthy and adequate sacrifice; offer thyself upon the golden altar of propitiation, to compensate for all the days of my life wherein I have