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 My God! give me a love stronger than death.

My Jesus! grant that I may love thee daily more and more.

My God, eternal love of my soul! let thy divine love consume my miserable self-love.

Jesus, lover of mankind! grant that every breath I draw may be as so many acts of love to thee, in thy tabernacle of love.

Oh! that I could possess the hearts of all mankind, and with them love thee, my Jesus, as thou deservest.

O God of charity! may I ever live in charity, that I may dwell in thee, and thou in me.

O Lord! enkindle in me the fire of thy love and the flame of everlasting charity.

I am sorry that I have ever offended thee, my God! do thou increase my sorrow.

My good God! I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for every sin, that I have ever committed, purely because sin is offensive to thee.

Jesus! Son of David, have mercy on me.

O God! be merciful to me a sinner.

Thou who hast created me, have mercy on me.

The sins of my youth and my ignorances, remember not, O Lord.

From my hidden sins, cleanse me, O Lord! and from the sins of others spare thy servant.

Have mercy on me, O God! according to thy great mercy: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my iniquity.

My soul! deplore thy ingratitude - thou hast not loved him who has loved thee with an eternal love, and even unto death, and the death of the Cross.

Adorable Jesus! overwhelmed with sorrow for my sins in the Garden of Olives, give me the grace of sincere contrition, and perfect conformity to thy holy will.

O my Divine Jesus! grant that the remembrance of thy sufferings may fill my soul with the most tender sentiments of gratitude for thy love, and of sorrow for my sins and those of the whole world.

Remember not, O Lord! our offences, nor those of our parents; and take not revenge on our sins.

My God! grant that from pure love of thee, I may dread even the shadow of sin.

My God! I am sorry for every want of correspondence to divine grace.