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Rh I cannot free myself from it. This conflict, then, is chiefly Thine, and it is from Thee alone I can hope for victory, though I must do my part."

Then turn to the Eternal Father, and offer to Him His Blessed Son, Whom He has given to you, and Whom you now possess within you, as a thank-offering and for victory over yourself. Then, make a vigorous attack upon the passion, and wait in faith upon God for the victory, Who will (though for awhile He may seem to delay) never fail you, if you, on your side, make every possible effort.

N order to stir up within you the love of God, by means of this most Heavenly Sacrament, let your meditation on the preceding evening be upon His Love for you.

You should consider how that Great and Almighty Lord, not content with having made you after His own image and likeness, and with having sent His Only-begotten Son on earth to suffer during three and thirty years for your sins,