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and dryness of spirit, and to enable me duly to bring thee
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this my appointed tribute of prayer. Amen.

ASPIRATION BEFORE THE DIVINE OFFICE

Our Lord recommended St. Mechtilde to say the
following brief prayer before reciting her office,
promising her that the prayer of those who habitually
did so should be united with his own most perfect and
availing prayers, and so have an infinite worth before
God.
LORD Jesus, in union with the intention and
love with which thou didst give praise to God
the Father, I offer and will recite this holy office.
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REMEDY AGAINST DISTRACTIONS
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When you are distracted in prayer, commend it to the
Heart of Jesus, to be perfected by him, as our Lord
himself taught St. Gertrude. One day, when she was
much distracted in prayer, he appeared to her, and held
forth to her his Heart with his own sacred hands, saying
: Behold, I set my Heart before the eyes of thy soul, that
thou mayest commend to it all thine actions, confidently
trusting that all that thou canst not of thyself supply to
them will be therein supplied, so that they may appear
perfect and spotless in my sight.
Remember always to say the Gloria Patri with

great devotion. The hermit Honorius relates that a
certain monk who had been accustomed to say his office
negligently appeared to another after his death, and
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