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16 July 1826

                            FIRST PROCESSION DAY

                                OF THE HOLY JUBILEE

                  My dear Jesus, you are infinitely merciful and boundless
            in your love; this very day you have granted me an experience
            of  it  by  letting  me  start  to  take  part  in  the  Holy  Jubilee.  My
            Lord, utterly poor as I am, yet all the same still your own Bride,
            I  want  to  do  my  very  best  to  love  you  with  all  my  strength,
            however limited it may be. I will love you by avoiding all sin,
            defects and imperfections. I will love you by practising virtue,
            especially  humility,  purity,  obedience and  by keeping  in  your
            presence. I will love you by doing all I can for the salvation of
            my neighbour. In a word, I will love you by shunning all that

            displeases you, and by doing what I know will be pleasing to
            you.
                  Most loveable Spouse, through your most sacred merits
            and those of my most gentle Mummy Mary, grant to me and to
            everyone the grace of fully participating in the fruit of the Holy
            Jubilee.  I  place  my  trust  in  you,  and  find  my  repose  in  your
            most gentle Heart, as I commend to you everybody, especially
            my  Confessor,  my  relatives,  sinners,  and  those  particularly
            dear to me.
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