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PRAISED BE THE MOST BLESSED TRINITY. AMEN

FORMULA

FOR THE VOW OF GREATER PERFECTION
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Here I am in your presence, trembling all over, my good
God, in order to give you the truest proof of the sincere desire I
have to love you and serve you in the best way I can; and so I
Bortolamea, your unworthy handmaid and Bride, kneeling

before the most adorable Divine Trinity, before you, my dear
Child Jesus, and you, Most Holy Mary, before my Guardian
Angel, my dear St Aloysius and all my Holy Advocates and all
the Heavenly Court, vow under pain of venial sin to seek in all
that I do, think and speak what I clearly know to be more
perfect.
And so, through this vow, I bind myself from now on to a life of
total self-abnegation in both external and internal actions.
More precisely, externally: never to seek after bodily comfort,
to opt always for harder things, to embrace suffering gladly, in
a word: to cling to the Cross by loving all that it presents to me.

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