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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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