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PRAYERS OF SAINT CLAUDE

1. Offering to the Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart of Jesus, teach me perfect forgetfulness of self, since this is the only way to find entrance into you. As all I shall do belongs to you, grant that nothing I do be unworthy of you. Teach me what I must do to come to the purity of your love in fulfilment of the desire you, yourself, have inspired in me. I have a great desire to please you but an even greater inability to do so without the special light and help which I can only hope for from you.
Lord, do your will in me. I am well aware that I oppose it, even though I wish not to. It is yours to do, Divine Heart of Jesus Christ. To you alone the glory of my sanctification, if indeed I do become holy - this is as clear as day to me. But it would be a great glory for you, and this is the only reason I wish to perfect myself.

2. A Talk with Jesus my friend

My Jesus, you are my true friend,
my only friend,
you take part in all my misfortunes;
you know how to change them into blessings.
You listen to me
With the greatest kindness
When I tell you all my troubles
And you always have something
With which to heal my wounds.

I find you at any time of the day or night
For I find you wherever I happen to be
You never leave me;
If I change my dwelling place
I find you wherever I go
You never weary of listening to me;
You are never tired of doing me good.
I am certain of being loved by you,
If I but love you.
My worldly goods are of no value to you
But by bestowing yours on me
You never grow poorer.
However miserable I may be,
No one more noble or cleverer or even holier
Can come between you and me
And deprive me of your friendship;
And death,
Which tears us away from all other friends,
Will unite me forever to you.

All the humiliations attached to old age
Or the loss of honour
Will never detach you from me;
On the contrary
I shall never enjoy you more fully
And you will never be closer to me,
Than when everything seems to conspire
Against me to overwhelm me,
And cast me down.

You bear with all my faults
With extreme patience,
And even my want of fidelity
And my ingratitude
Do not wound you to such a degree
As to make you unwilling to receive me back
When I return to you.

O Jesus,
Grant that I may die loving you,
That I may die for the love of you.
Amen

3. Prayer to the Divine Mercy

O Lord, behold here before You a soul who exists in this world in order to allow You to exercise Your admirable mercy and manifest it before heaven and earth. Others may glorify You through their faithfulness and perseverance, thus making evident the power of Your grace. How sweet and generous You are to those who are faithful to You!

Nevertheless I will glorify You by acquainting others to Your goodness to sinners, and by reminding them that your mercy is above all malice, that nothing can exhaust it, and that no relapse, no matter how shameful or criminal, should allow the sinner to despair of forgiveness.

I have offended You grievously, O beloved Redeemer, but it would be still worse if I were to offend You by thinking that You were lacking in enough goodness to forgive me. I would rather be deprived of everything else than the trust I have in your mercy.

Should I fall a hundred times, or should my crimes be a hundred times worse than they actually are, I would continue to trust in your mercy.