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178 continue to do, both on the evening and morning before the most Holy Communion.

Then, when we are on the point of Communicating, review for a moment all the faults of which, since your last Communion, you have been guilty, as though God did not exist, or as if He had not endured so much for you in the Mysteries of the Cross; how you have preferred a trifling pleasure and the gratification of your own desires to the Will of God and His Honour; and thus with holy fear you will be ashamed at the sight of your ingratitude and unworthiness. But consider, again, how the boundless deep of your Lord's Goodness calls to the deep of your ingratitude and unfaithfulness, and approach Him with trustfulness, giving Him a large place in your heart, that He may take absolute possession of it.

And you will be able to do this, as soon as you have driven out of your heart all attachment to creatures, closing it against them, that your Lord may enter it alone.

After Communion, withdraw at once into the inner sanctuary of your heart, and having first adored Him, then with all lowliness and reverence converse thus in spirit with your Lord:—"Thou seest, O my only Good, how prone I am to offend Thee, and what power this passion exercises over me, and how in my own strength