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sacred feast of thy Body and Blood, not in presumption,
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but with lowly and pious confidence.
For the love of thee I bitterly grieve for all and every
one of my sins and my negligences, whereby I have ever
offended and grieved thy most tender loving kindness
and polluted my soul with such loathsome defilement.
Oh, would that I could change the whole sea into blood,
and that I could pour its mighty flood through my head
and my heart, that thus that sink of unutterable
abominations might be cleansed, which thou my last End
hast chosen for thine habitation! O would that my heart
could be torn from my body and purified in fiercest fire
from all its dross, that thus it might offer thee an abode,
not, alas, worthy of thee, but at least not so utterly
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unworthy.
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But why do I disquiet my soul within me, seeing that
even if a thousand years were given me I could not
prepare myself to receive thee befittingly; for of myself I
have nothing whatever which could in any way avail
towards so august and solemn a preparation as beseems
thy adorable Majesty. Wherefore, O most loving Jesus, I
cast myself in the dust before thee in the humility of my
heart, and I beseech thy clemency to deign so to prepare
me that I may partake of this heavenly banquet to thy
glory and to the profit of all the whole world. I offer and
abandon to thy tender pity all my substance, all that I am
and have, earnestly desiring and beseeching thee that
thou wouldst thyself vouchsafe to prepare within me all
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