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Prayers from the Writings of Jeanne de Matel
Act of Abandonment
My merciful Creator and Savior, everything I possess by nature or grace is Yours. My soul and body are the work of Your hands. Any virtue I may have comes from the grace You merited for me through Your Passion and Death. As Your due, I lovingly return and give You all You have granted me in charity and mercy. I fervently abandon and cast myself into the paternal bosom of Your Divine Providence. With an absolute and irrevocable abandonment, I commit myself and submit to Your Divine Will. Here I am, Lord, stripped of my will, my affections and my desires. What will You have me do? I want only Your most holy Will. AMEN.
Morning Prayer
O God, enthrone Yourself in my heart and do not ever leave it. May You be the first in the morning to awaken my thoughts, words and actions; and the last at night to cover with the ashes of Your holy humility the fire which You have enkindled in my heart. AMEN.
Prayer Before Contemplating the Word
O Divine Savior, through Your inexpressible goodness let me be transformed into You, and see only You as I listen to Your Word. AMEN.
Night Prayer
In a divine, ecstatic peace I sleep in Your arms, Incarnate Word, lost to myself and to all my needs; because in You are all my hope and You Yourself are my only confidence and eternal possession. AMEN.
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