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(RENEWAL OF MY VOWS)
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HAIL, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, FOR ALL ETERNITY

First Day of Year 1831.

From the depths of my heart I thank you, my Jesus, for

keeping me in existence to start this new year. I beg you, grant
that I may make of the whole of it a sacred offering. My heart
is filled to overflowing with a holy joy at the thought that I am
starting it with your most holy and sweetest Name.
From Jesus alone, through whom I am starting the new year,
will I therefore draw my comfort, my help, my strength and my
delight. For the sake of Jesus, I now firmly resolve, for this
whole year, to let every breath come from my heart, every
thought from my mind, every word from my tongue, every
action from my heart and from my body. In Jesus and with
Jesus alone I want to act, think and speak so that everything
may be sealed with the most Holy Name of Jesus.

My God, since you grant me this new year, I really want

to become a saint, I want to be wholly yours, I want to love you
truly from the heart. I want to spare myself no pains in
anything, any more. Dear Jesus, relying on your grace and on
the power that your most holy Name will give me, I most gladly

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