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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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