Appreciation & Gratitude:
Thank you, Jesus, for giving us the Feast Day of your Divine Mercy today! Thank you that we were both able to join in celebrating with you by going to reconciliation, mass, and pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy AND go through the Holy Door of Mercy. All these gifts help me to live a better life, and hopefully one day (soon I hope) meet you face to face! Thank you that you visited me as a youth; I would love to get to talk with you in person. I have a big hug I need to give you! Thank you for your unfathomable divine mercy and your incredible love! Thank you for giving me a husband that is so good to me, and is my best friend. Thank you that we were able to be reconciled to your precious heart. Help us avoid sin, and live a more holy life for you. Thank you, also, for allowing me to offer myself consecrated to your Merciful Love through the guidance of Father Michael Gaitley. This at home retreat these last 33 days has been an eye opener to your love for the world. Help me grow in your love so I can be love for others. Lend me your heart, Jesus, and help me be who you want me to be.
Today I would like to pray here in this board meeting my consecration prayer which I have been focusing on from March 1st to today.
Here are the words given from St. Therese the little flower. May her words be mine. She says everything so beautifully. Pray for me, St. Therese, that I can strive each day to please God and grow in love of Him.
Prayer By St. Therese:
O My God! Most Blessed Trinity, I desire to Love You and make You Lord, 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. (I need your help!)
Since You love me so much as to give me Your only Son as my Savior, 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 me.
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 consumed in Your Love, O my God!
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!
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So, God –Big Hugs, I love you and I hope you accept my prayer with gladness.
Amen! Xo, ~Mar