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INSTR. x.] The Love of God. 407
have fled into the desert, others have shut themselves
up in the cloister, and others have suffered torments
and death. Let us also who are priests, and are bound
by stricter obligations to sanctity,
unite ourselves to
the divine will; let us become saints; let us not be
diffident on account of past sins. God does not at
tend," says St. Bernard, to what man does, but to what
he wishes to be." resolute will, with the divine aid,
conquers all things.
Let us pray always: he who asks, receives: For every
one that asketh, receiveth? Whatsoever we ask in prayer,
we shall obtain: You shall ask whatever you will, and it
shall be done unto you? And among all prayers,
let the
beautiful prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola be always
dear to us; let us repeat it continually: me "Grant only
Thy love with Thy grace, O Lord! and I shall be rich
enough. Lord, give me your love and your grace,
and I desire nothing more. But, like St. Augustine,
we must ask this gift of divine love continually and
earnestly. The holy Doctor says:
"Hear me, hear me,
O my God, my King, my Father, my honor, my salva
tion, my light, my life, hear, hear me! Thee only do I
love, Thee only do I seek. Heal me, and open my eyes.
Look upon him who has fled from Thee; long enough
have I served Thy enemy. Command that I
may be a
lover of Thy
pure, a perfect
wisdom."
And in asking
Non attendit Deus quid fecerit homo, sed quid velit^sse."
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Omnis enim qui petit, accipit." Matth, vii. 8.
3 "Quodcunque volueritis, petetis, et fiet vobis.
satis."
-Jo/in, xv. 7.
tui solum cum gratia tua mihi dones, et dives sum
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Exaudi, exaudi, exaudi me, Deus meus, Rex meus, Pater meus,
Honor meus, Salus mea, Lux mea, Vita mea! exaudi, exaudi, exaudi
me. Jam te solum amo, te solum quaero. Sana et aperi oculos meos.
Recipe fugitivum tuuir.; satis inimicis tuis servierim. .
Jubeas
purum perfectumque amatorem esse sapientiae
tuae." Solil. 1. i, c. i.
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