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Ascension, 9 a.m.
Jesus, even more extraordinarily loving, wanted to comfort and comfort me with his love... for so many reasons.
His infinite, perceptible charity plunged me into contemplation of all my past and present indigence and into such a complete pain of contrition as I had never before experienced.
Even if Jesus did not reassure me in this regard, I felt I was right in thinking that, if I were to die after such a perfect movement of contrition for all my sins, imperfections, omissions, and so on, my soul would be absolved by God Himself.
I then feared I had had a proud thought in saying this. And I asked Jesus to comfort me. He did so with this prayer:
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave Levi and called him to You, forgive us our sins, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave Mary Magdalene and united her to the holy, faithful Women, forgive us our sins, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave Zaccheus and made him your disciple, forgive our sins, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave the adulteress and gave her only the divine command not to sin any more, forgive us our sins, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave the repentant thief, taking him with You into Paradise, forgive our sins, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave Peter for having denied You, forgive our sins of infidelity, for having offended You is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who from the height of the cross invoked the Father’s forgiveness for your enemies and crucifiers, obtain for us the Father’s forgiveness for having offended Him so often by offending You, Most Holy Word of the Father; for having offended Him is our pain.
“Jesus, Infinite Mercy, who forgave the Apostles so completely that from the Father You obtained for them the Holy Spirit, offended by them in not loving, above all things, God - You, the Incarnate God, vilely abandoned by them - and their neighbor - You, Friend and perfect Master - obtain for us the forgiveness of the Holy Spirit for our sins against twofold love, for we repent of having offended love, the very essence of God.
“Forgive us, Jesus - You, Mirror of the Father; You, Fruit of Divine Love - for all our sins against the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, for having offended the Most Holy Trinity is our pain, and You alone can take away the stains of our sins, for to make our souls clean you shed all your Most Holy Blood.
“We want to love You, O Lord!
“Come to the aid of our weakness. Come to our aid when we fall.
“Infuse your love into us so that You may live in us, establish in us the Kingdom of God, and make us ‘one’ with You, with You, that are One with the Father and with Him and the Holy Spirit form the Triune God, our Beginning and our End, the Origin of every good for us now and forever.
“Live in us, You alone; live with your Spirit, with that all - loving Spirit of yours who is the same Spirit proceeding from the Father and You, and may our souls second your slightest impulses so that our apparent action will be only the outward robe of your real and hidden actions in us. And may it so happen through complete fusion - or, even more, the complete annihilation of the creature in order to have You alone live in us.
“To live and act, moving, O Eternal, Most Holy Mover, every movement of our souls, minds, hearts, and even our humanity so that all that is ours will move and serve You in love and with love, O God, who deserve all our love and ask us to love You, for in love is the Law, and those who come to love You with their entire self and love their neighbor as themselves no longer sin and possess your Kingdom, in this life and the other.
“Live in us, You alone, O Son of the Father, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit are one God, in such a way that the Father, on seeing us, will see You, his Beloved, and love us in You and because of You, our Divine Guest, and dwell in us to remain with You.
“Live in us, You alone, O Incarnate Word, who were conceived by the action of Eternal Love and are never separated from Him, so that, as our spirit prays to praise the Most Adorable Triune Divinity and call upon it in our needs and sorrows, it may continue to be the voice of the Holy Spirit that rises to the Throne of God to offer Him perfect praise and proper entreaty, both of them acceptable to the Lord.
“I do not ask You, O Most Holy Love, to have me live my own personal life in grace, but I ask You, Grace, to live in me so that I may really live the life of Grace and it may transform me and supercreate me as a true christ.”