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CONFESSION Firm Purpose of Amendment
What must You be in Yourself! What must
be the overflowing goodness of that Nature which
can spend itself on one like me! Shall I not love
it for its own sake!
0 God, all good, the only good, surely the
proof of Your infinite goodness is found in this—that You are good to me. You must be infinitely
good to be good to me. 0 goodness of God which
I have outraged, 0 patience of God which I have
tried so sorely, I grieve from the bottom of my
heart that I have ever offended You, I grieve for
the sins of the past week, for the sins of my past
life, especially for . . . And I purpose, with
the help of Your grace, to labor with new courage at the work of my salvation and perfection
by the avoidance of this fault . . . and by
attention to my Particular Examination.
Now do I begin. "Help me, 0 Lord God, in
my good resolution and in Your holy service, and
give me grace now this day perfectly to begin,
for all I have hitherto done is nothing." |
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