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 will be done! ’ Here is the true and perfect act of love: — to conform our will to the will of God. In heaven, where our Father is, they love Him; and therefore it is that they find their happiness in His will. May that which is done in heaven be done on earth! May what is finished up there be begun down here!

St Augustine says that this life ought not to be loved, but endured: non amanda, sed toler anda. It is only a place of pilgrimage — of exile — of sighs and tears. Therefore, O Heavenly Father, let Thy kingdom come and Thy will be done!