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royalties, princedoms, honours, and dignities, with this
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intention: that were they all mine, I would distribute
them to thy poor, and employ them in pious uses, that
for very love of thee I might abide with joy in my present
state of poverty.
Further, I offer to thee on the same altar all the virtues,
devotions, merits, and holiness of all the just; all the
affliction, the crosses, the poverty, and want of all the
poor, the afflicted, and the sick; all the pangs, the
torments, the wounds, the blood shedding, and the death
of all martyrs; all the penance, the mortification, the
fastings, vigils, and austerities of all confessors; all the
love, the continence, the purity of all virgins: and I offer
them all to thee with this intention: that were they all
mine, I would do and suffer them all with most pure
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intention for thy glory.
Thirdly, I offer thee all the whole fulness of grace and
glory, transcending all human thought, wherewith thou
hast so super-abundantly enriched thy saints in heaven,
and especially the most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of
thy only-begotten Son. And above all these I offer thee
the virtues and merits which thy Son manifested on
earth, and all the gifts of grace, drawn from the infinitely
exuberant treasury of the most Holy Trinity, which thou
hast bestowed on his most sacred Humanity. For all
which I desire, on behalf of all in heaven and earth, and
under the earth; and through the most sacred and blessed
Heart of thy Son, which gives forth its ravishing
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