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HAIL, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, FOR EVER AND EVER
ON RECOLLECTION DAY DONE IN THE SODALITY
20 January 1831
Jesus my love, what resolution shall I make to meet with
your approval and respond to your sweet invitations? ... Do I
have to take on myself heavier obligations? I fear I may be
deceiving myself, seeing that I am neglecting even the
promises I have already made in the past ... I will therefore just
renew and reaffirm what I vowed previously, striving to be
much more faithful. Bortolamea, remember that you must
belong totally to your neighbour and still more truly, wholly
belong to God.
You will be true to yourself through holy humility. Keep
always in mind your misery, your ingratitude, your countless
sins. Keep in mind that if God were to stop sustaining you by a
constant miracle, you would be the greatest sinner.
Keep ever in mind that of yourself you have nothing but evil,
that you are nothing, that you are unworthy of all that is good,
and even when God would be delighted to work miracles in
you, you would not stop being the greatest sinner. And so,
seek to be hidden, cherish humiliations, crave to be put aside,
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