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HAT shall I offer Thee, O my God! acknowledging as I do, that I am weakness and misery itself? Yet here again Thy divine love is my only resource. I said in my poverty: What return shall I make? and Thy love permits me to reply: I will take the chalice of salvation. Permit me, O Lord, in Thy tender mercy, to offer Thee my whole self, miserable as it is. Ah! methinks I hear the reply: My child, the offering of thyself, united with that of thy Saviour, shall never be rejected by me. The gift of thy heart, blended by the divine love of Jesus with His own, shall ever be acceptable to a God who asks only love in return for love.

THAT I could pray to Thee, Lord, as I ought! Here especially I feel the need of Thy grace. Faith assures me that Thou