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Necessity of Mental Prayer. 4 7 1
happiness of leaving this world while thanking God, like
the glorious martyr St. Agatha, who said at the moment
of her death: Lord, who hast taken from me the
love of the world! receive now soul."
my Ah! a thou
sand times happy shall we be if we can then also say:
kingdom of this world and all the beauty of life
I have esteemed as nothing, for the excellency of the
love of Jesus Christ my Lord."
Mary, my tender Mother! thou whose whole life
was a continual prayer, since even sleep did not hinder
thee from keeping thyself united with God, deign to
remember us. Thou didst do to St. Rose the charity to
in the same
awaken her when it was time for prayer:
way, when thou seest us fallen asleep in negligence, in
lukewarmness, have the kindness to come to awaken
us, and to recall us to the duty of attending to prayer,
which should inflame us with love for God and for thee,
so that afterwards we may be able to go to love thee
for all eternity in paradise.
Live Jesus and Mary: with Joseph and Teresa!
1 "
Domine, qui abstulisti a me amorem sseculi, accipe animam
meam." Off. 5 febr.
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Regnum mundi et omnem ornatum sseculi contempsi, propter
amorem Domini mei Jesu
Christi!" Comm. non Virg.