lowers of Christ. I will make an earnest effort to live in accordance with the spirit of Christ — the spirit of divine and fraternal charity — by striving to do all things with the purest intention for the glory of God, for the love of God, and the love of my neighbor.
Praise, honor, and glory be to Thee, O Jesus, Saviour of the world! Who, thirsting for the salvation of souls, didst endure for them so much labor and fatigue; Who for their sakes didst pass entire nights in prayer, and didst weary Thyself going from city to city, from village to village. Grant, I implore Thee, that Thy love may also make me prompt and apt in every good work, and that I may never grow tepid in Thy service. Help me to know and practise the holy counsels contained in Thy Gospel, and grant especially that I may realize the importance of these words of Thine: "If any man will come after Me, let Him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me."
"What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?" (Matt. xvi. 24, 26).
