OF THE HOLY FACE
TO THE MERCIFUL LOVE OF
GOD
J.M.J.T.
Offering of
myself as a Victim of Holocaust to God’s Merciful
Love.
9th June 1895
O My God! Most Blessed Trinity, I desire
to Love You and make You Loved, to work for the glory of Holy
Church by saving souls on earth and liberating those suffering in purgatory. I
desire to accomplish Your will perfectly and to reach the degree of glory You
have prepared for me in Your Kingdom. I desire, in a word, to be a saint but I
feel my helplessness and I beg You, O my God! To be Yourself my
Sanctity!
Since You loved me so much as to give me
Your only Son as my Saviour and my Spouse, the infinite treasures of His merits
are mine. I offer them to You with gladness, begging You to look upon me only in
the Face of Jesus and in His heart burning with Love.
I offer You, too, all the merits of the
saints (in heaven and on
earth), their acts of Love, and those of the holy angels. Finally, I
offer You, O Blessed Trinity! The love and merits of the Blessed
Virgin, my dear Mother. It is to her I abandon my offering, begging her to
present it to You. Her Divine Son, my Beloved Spouse, told us in the days
of His mortal life: “Whatsoever you ask the Father in my name He will give it
to you!” I am certain, then, that You will grant my desires; I know, O my
God! That the more You want to give, the more You make us desire. I feel
in my heart immense desires and it is with confidence I ask You to come and take
possession of my soul. Ah! I cannot receive Holy Communion as often as I desire,
but, Lord, are You not all-powerful? Remain in me as in a tabernacle and
never separate Yourself from Your little victim.
I want to console You for the ingratitude
of the wicked, and I beg of You to take away my freedom to displease You. If
through weakness I sometimes fall, may Your Divine Glance cleanse my soul
immediately, consuming all my imperfections like the fire that transforms
everything into itself.
I thank You, O my God! For all the graces
You have granted me, especially the grace of making me pass through the crucible
of suffering. It is with joy I shall contemplate You on the Last Day carrying
the scepter of Your Cross. Since You deigned to give me a share in this very
precious Cross, I hope in heaven to resemble You and to see shining in my
glorified body the sacred stigmata of Your Passion.
After earth’s Exile, I hope to go and
enjoy You in the Fatherland, but I do not want to lay up merits for heaven. I
want to work for Your Love alone with the one purpose of pleasing You,
consoling Your Sacred Heart, and saving souls who will love You
eternally.
In the evening of this life, I shall
appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my
works. All our justice is stained in Your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in
Your own Justice and to receive from Your Love the eternal
possession of Yourself. I want no other Throne, no other
Crown but You, my Beloved! Time is nothing in Your eyes, and a
single day is like a thousand years. You can, then, in one instant prepare me to
appear before You.
In order to live in one single act of
perfect Love, I Offer Myself as a Victim of Holocaust to Your Merciful Love,
asking You to consume me incessantly, allowing the waves of infinite
tenderness shut up within You to overflow into my soul, and that thus I may
become a martyr of Your Love, O my God!
May this martyrdom, after having prepared
me to appear before You, finally cause me to die and may my soul take its flight
without any delay into the eternal embrace of Your Merciful
Love.
I want O my Beloved, at each beat of my
heart to renew this offering to You an infinite number of times, until the
shadows having disappeared I may be able to tell You of my Love in an Eternal
Face to Face!
Marie, Francoise, Thérèse of
the Child Jesus
and the Holy Face, unworthy
Carmelite religious.
This 9th day of
June,
Feast of the Most Holy
Trinity,
in the year of grace,
1895.
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