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 so boundless! I do not deserve to live any longer; but if thy goodness deigns to prolong my life, it shall all be employed in loving thee, in meditating on thy sufferings, in bewailing my sins. Here, O Jesus, is my soul; since it has been dearly purchased by thee, make it to be thine forever, and do not let me ever again abandon it to the devil and to sin, which I hate and detest above all evils, and never shall commit, even at the peril of my life.

OOK often on your crucifix, kiss lovingly and reverently the sacred wounds, and press it to your heart. Consecrate yourself to-day to meditating in a more particular manner on the death Jesus endured for your sake. Abstain from some useless diversion, and sacrifice it to Jesus. When going to rest, think in what state you would wish to be found at the hour of death, and if you be not in that state now, try to regain, as soon as possible, the grace and friendship of Almighty God, and ask of Jesus, through the merits of his painful death, to give you the grace of a holy death.