Yes, yes! Let Thy sweet and holy Will be done! Even, O LORD, if to glorify Thee, I must be humiliated, suffering, useless, and forsaken, still, LORD, stay not Thine Hand, I am wholly Thine. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD How blessed, O LORD, to depend only upon Thee ... behold me, Thy child, waiting with outstretched hand to receive Thy benefits. Grant me my temporal blessings,--clothing, nourishment, shelter ... but not too much of anything; and let me have the happiness of sharing my blessings with those poorer than myself to-day. Grant me the blessing of intelligence, that I may read, or hear one of those golden counsels that elevate the soul, and lend wings to the thoughts. Grant me the loving heart, O my FATHER! that I may feel for a moment how I love Thee, and Thy love towards me; let me sacrifice myself for the welfare of another. Give me the Bread of Life, the Holy Eucharist! I have just received it, LORD! Grant me again ere long that great blessing. And then, give all these blessings to those I love, and who love me! FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US When I pronounce the word of pardon, what a weight seems lifted from my heart. I will not only banish every feeling of hatred, I will efface every painful remembrance. O GOD, if Thou forgivest me, as I forgive others, what mercy for me! Thou seest I bear no malice, that I forget all injuries.... I have been offended by _words_; I forget them; by actions, I forget them; by omissions, thoughts, desires; they are all forgotten. Ah! in all these ways I have offended Thee, and Thou wilt forget, even as I have forgotten. I will be very merciful, so that Thou mayst have mercy upon me. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL Now, as I leave Thine altar, I go to encounter temptation. O SAVIOUR! help me, keep me, and warn me of my danger! Let me shun all occasions of evil, and if by weakness or allurements I am led into paths of sin, if I fall, oh! rescue me speedily, that I may fall upon my knees, confessing my sin, and imploring pardon. Sin! this is the evil from which I beseech Thee to deliver me; other troubles that may happen, I accept; they are sent to try me and to purify, and come from Thee; but sin, I have no pleasure in it! Oh! when in the hour of temptation I fall away, LORD, hearken to the cry that I now raise to Thee in all sincerity; I _will_ it not! it is not wilful! I go from Thy Presence, but, JESUS, Thou art with me! In work, in prayer, in suffering, let all be done in Thee! XXXIII. "Mother," asked a child, "since nothing is ever lost, where do all our thoughts go?" "To GOD," answered the mother gravely, "who remembers them forever." "Forever!" said the child. He bent his head, and, drawing closer to his mother, murmured, "I am frightened!" Which of us have not felt the same? XXXIV.