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A HUMBLE OFFERING OF MYSELF

TO MY SPOUSE JESUS CHRIST
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Most loveable Jesus, in keeping with the advice of the
person who holds your place for me and with what you make

me feel deep within myself, it seems to me that, out of a
special favour, you have destined me as a poor, worthless
instrument in the work you have planned for your glory and for
the benefit of your creatures in this town.

While thanking you with all my heart for such a special
grace, I make a vow under pain of venial sin to overcome all

obstacles, reluctance or temptation that I may find in my way,
prompted by relatives, by outsiders, by the devil or by myself,
and at this moment I consecrate myself to your Holy Institute
as if I were already realizing it, by vowing never to change my
mind, unless I am told to by my Confessor, and accordingly
from now on I consider myself as belonging no longer to
myself nor to my relatives nor to the world, but entirely to you
and to what you have planned concerning myself; for that
purpose I intend to dedicate also the modest possessions you
have given me and what I may come in possession of.

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