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HAIL SACRED HEART OF JESUS
AND HIS MOST HOLY CROSS
9 June 1831
IN OCCASION OF THE ANNUAL CONFESSION
Lord, here is again your poor Bortolamea. May your
Sacred Heart thank you for so many graces you have granted
me throughout this year. I deeply repent of the poor way I have
served you and of the ingratitude I have shown in return for
your graces! ... Forgive me, most compassionate Heart of
Jesus, my Beloved, and help me once again that I may give
myself entirely to you. I therefore resolve:
1. To look on the world as a real desert-place for me. Not
to seek in it anything else whatsoever except God and his
glory, the good of my neighbour, and also crosses and
sufferings. For the rest, I will totally die to everything. I will not
allow myself as much as a word, thought, affection, look, step,
movement or any action whatsoever that has nothing to do
with God and his will. The place where I seek rest and joy,
tranquillity and refreshment will be the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It is there that after toil and on every occasion I will withdraw to
be restored.
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