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 Give me a heart always in peace.

Give me a heart delighting in prayer, and making this heavenly exercise its chief occupation.

Give me a heart having no joy but that of seeing God known, loved, served and honored.

Give me a heart, having no sadness but that of seeing God offended. Give me a heart having no aversion but for sin.

Give me a heart having no desire but for the glory of God and for the salvation of souls.

All for thee, O my God! all for thy greater honor and glory and pure love.

Deliver me, my God! from placing my affections on any of thy creatures, which would divert me from continually looking up to thee.

My God! grant that I may see thee in all, and all in thee My Jesus! grant that I may go generously, on, from virtue to virtue, till I arrive unto the clear vision of thy glorious Majesty.

My Jesus! Divine Sun of Justice, enlighten me to know thy goodness, and all those things which are most accept able to thee.

My God! bestow on me a sincere and ardent desire of perfection. My God! thou art omnipotent; make me holy. O God of peace ! restore peace to my troubled soul. Give me thy blessing, my Jesus! and establish my soul in everlasting peace.

If it be for thy honor, that I suffer interior desolation, I accept it from thy hands, my God!

Lord, if it be thy will, I desire to drink this chalice to the very dregs.-Thy grace is all-sufficient for me.

My sweet Jesus! let the remembrance of thy bitter Passion and of the pains thou sufferedst for me, strengthen me in all trials and afflictions.

O Jesus! calumniated, accused, despised! teach me to disregard the judgments of men; and grant that for the love of thee I may suffer with patience and in silence the basest injuries.

O my Jesus! grant that I may always unite my sufferings to thine.

O my Redeemer! do not permit that I should ever be so ungrateful as to forget thy sufferings, or to think of them with indifference.