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CITATIONS USED FROM ST. THERESE:

Act of Oblation to Merciful Love** by St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face O my God! Blessed Trinity, I desire to love You and make You loved, to work for the glory of the Holy Church by saving souls on earth and by liberating those suffering in purgatory. I desire to accomplish Your will perfectly and to reach the degree of glory You have prepared for me in Your Kingdom. I desire, in a word, to be a saint, but I feel my powerlessness and I beg You, O my God, to be Yourself my Sanctity!
You loved me so much that You gave me Your only Son to be my Savior and my Spouse. The infinite treasures of His merits are mine. I offer them to You with gladness, begging You to look on me through the Face of Jesus and in His Heart burning with Love. I offer You, too, all the merits of the saints in Heaven and on earth, their acts of love, and those of the holy angels. Finally, I offer You, O Blessed Trinity, the love and merits of the Blessed Virgin, my cherished Mother. To her I entrust my offering, begging her to present it to You. Her Divine Son, my Beloved Spouse, during His earthly life said: “Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you!” I am certain, therefore, that You will grant my desires. I know it, O my God! The more You want to give, the more You make us desire. I feel in my heart immense desires and I confidently ask You to come and take possession of my soul.
Ah! I cannot receive Holy Communion as often as I desire, but Lord, are You not all-powerful? Remain in me as in a tabernacle and never separate Yourself from Your little victim. I want to console You for the ingratitude of the wicked and I beg You to take away my freedom to displease You. If through weakness I sometimes fall, may Your divine glance purify me immediately, consuming all my imperfections like fire that transforms everything into itself.
I thank You, O my God, for all the graces You have granted me, especially the grace of making me pass through the crucible of suffering. With joy I shall contemplate You on the last day carrying the scepter of Your Cross. Since You have deigned to give me a share in this very precious Cross, I hope to resemble You in Heaven and to see shining in my glorified body the sacred stigmata of Your Passion. After this exile on earth, I hope to go and enjoy You in the Fatherland, but I do not want to lay up merits for Heaven. I want to work for Your love alone—with the sole aim of pleasing You, of consoling Your Sacred Heart, and of saving souls who will love You eternally.
In the evening of this life, I shall appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my works. All our justice is stained in Your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in Your own Justice and to receive from Your Love the eternal possession of Yourself. I want no other throne, no other crown but You, my Beloved!

“I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. I understood it was Love alone that made the Church’s members act, that if Love were to be extinguished, apostles would no longer preach the Gospel, martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. I understood that Love encompassed all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places… in a word, that it was eternal! Then, in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love… my vocation, at last I have found it… my vocation is Love!”