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 the injuries, ingratitudes, contempts, disorders, and irreverences, which have hitherto been committed. If you have shared in these crimes, enter into yourself, and thank Jesus Christ that he has not cast you headlong into hell, nor delivered up your soul to the devil, as he did that of Judas. You must also make this visit to consecrate yourself entirely to the honour and glory of this Sacred Heart.

The fifth ought to be expressly, to adore the Sacred Heart of Jesus in all the churches of the world where he resides.

The devout client of the Sacred Heart, finding himself fired with the love and surrounded with the bounties of this amiable Saviour, most ardently pants after the happiness of enjoying him by the closest union. Repair, then, O devout soul! to the holy communion. Go thither with a view to honour, and glorify this divine heart to obtain the graces necessary to keep you from sin,