8 November | Optional Memorial
O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to become completely self-concerned, to fix myself in You, motionless and tranquil, as if my soul were already in eternity. Let nothing disturb my peace or make me leave You, O my Immutable One, but let each moment plunge me more and more into the depths of Your mystery.
Pacify my soul, make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling place, Your resting place. May I never leave you alone, but be there all, wholly awakened in my faith, all in adoration, fully surrendered to your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified for love, I would like to be a bride for your Heart, I would like to cover you with glory, I would like to love you to the point of dying. But I feel my helplessness and ask you to “clothe me with you,” to identify my soul with all the movements of your soul, to submerge me, to invade me, to substitute yourself for me, so that my life may be but an irradiation of your life. Come into me as Worshipper, as Repairer and as Savior.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life listening to You, I want to make myself perfectly docile to learn everything from You. Then, through all the nights, all the voids, all the helplessness, I always want to stare at You and remain under Your great light. O my beloved Star, fascinate me so that I may never again leave Your irradiation.
Consuming fire, Spirit of love, “descend in me,” that it may be made in my soul as an in-carnation of the Word and I may be to Him an added humanity in which He renews all His Mystery.
And you, O Father, bend over your poor little creature, “cover her with your shadow,” and see in her only “the Beloved in whom you have placed all your complacencies.”
O my Three, my all, my bliss, in-finite solitude, immensity in which I lose myself, abandon myself to You like a prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may bury myself in You, waiting to come and contemplate in Your light the abyss of Your greatness.
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