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19 September

Day 2

FIRST MEDITATION - Night-time

Reasons for my obligation to serve God
and do His holy Will

I did the Meditation for a ¼ of an hour only, because I
fell asleep. As I dozed, God made me continue my Meditation,
but it left no impression on my mind because I was too drowsy.
I made no resolutions either.
When I woke up I was tempted to go to sleep again
without making my meditation, and twice or three times I felt
like that again even as I tried to do it: for a while I resisted, but
in the end I gave in .
1

SECOND MEDITATION

On the excellence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
in 3 points

1 On the excellence of the richness of the Sacred Heart
st
of Jesus. 2 On the excellence of its fruits. 3 On the
rd
nd
excellence of the traits of the Heart of Jesus. I did this

1 In actual fact she went on struggling till the natural need to sleep took over.

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