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HAIL JESUS, MARY AND ALOYSIUS

20 September 1829

FIRST MEDITATION & PREPARATION FOR THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Necessity of salvation

In preparing for this H. Meditation abandoned myself
totally in God’s hands, begging him to help me throughout this
sacred time. It seems to me that the merciful Heart of God
reassured me of his readiness to receive me and pour his
graces on me. This strengthened me and took away almost all
my heaviness-of-heart.
In the Meditation itself I reflected on how necessary and
important it is to save oneself. What struck me most is the
thought that the grace of eternal salvation is many times
attached to tiny graces: if you neglect them, you may easily be
lost. And so I concluded how much I should value even the
slightest of all graces because these too are gifts from the
Lord and my salvation may be attached to some of them.

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