“Let us beg our God to
enkindle in our hearts a desire to serve him. Let us give ourselves
to him to do whatever he pleases with us... Let us hold it as certain
that
we shall not be true Christians until we are ready to lose all
and to
give even our life for the love and glory of Jesus Christ,
resolving,
with the holy Apostle, to desire tortures and even death
itself rather
than be separated from the charity of the divine
Savior.” (SV XI, 75)
