Thursday, June 4 : Saint Gertrude of Helfta

O God, my sweetest and most tender love, my mercy, send down upon me from heaven your Holy Ghost, and create in me a new heart and a new spirit (Ez 18:31). By thy holy unction teach me all things; for thee have I chosen out of thousands (Ct 5:10), and I love thee with a love stronger than any other love, more than the love of my own life. Sustain in my soul the life, the energy, and the beauty which come of love and which attract thy love and thy tenderness, All my desire is onto thee. Ah, make me stand in your presence with worship worthy of you. Yes, Jesus, I come to thee whom I have loved, in whom I have believed, to whom I have given my heart. (…) My dearly beloved Jesus, I desire to follow thee in the rule of love, thanks to which I will be able to renew my life and live it in you. Oh, place my life under the care of thy Holy Spirit so that at all times I may be found eager to obey your commandments. Make my actions conform to yours; strengthen me in your love and in peace. Enclose my senses in the light of your charity, so that you alone teach me, direct me and form me, in the most intimate part of my heart. Absorb my spirit in thy spirit, so powerfully and so deeply that truly I am entirely buried in you, and that in this union with you I leave myself, and that no one, except your love, knows my burial in you. There, may love enclose me under its seal and bindme to you by an indivisible bond. Amen.

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