O blessed Jesus! Saviour, who agonized for us! God Almighty, who didst
make Thyself weak for the love of us! Oh, write that love upon our
hearts so deeply that neither pleasure nor sorrow, life nor death may
wipe it away! Thou hast sacrificed Thyself for us; oh, give us hearts to
sacrifice ourselves for Thee! Thou art the Vine, we are the branches.
Let Thy priceless blood, shed for us on the cross, flow like life-giving
sap through all our hearts and minds, and fill us with Thy righteousness,
that we may be sacrifices fit for Thee. Stir us up to offer to Thee, O
Lord, our bodies, our souls, our spirits; and in all we love and all we
learn, in all we plan and all we do, to offer ourselves, our labours, our
pleasures, our sorrows, to Thee; to work for Thy kingdom, to live as
those who are not their own, but bought with Thy blood, fed with Thy
body; and enable us now, in Thy most Holy Sacrament, to offer to Thee our
repentance, our prayers, our praises, living, reasonable, and spiritual
sacrifices--Thine from our birth-hour--Thine now, and Thine for ever!
Amen.