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And if Thou keepest me thirsting, and leavest me for the time, parched and dry, let the parched and dry earth of my soul but gasp the more for Thy Love. Let me be content to lie, if Thou so will, parched and dry, hungry and thirsty, faint and weary before Thee; let me be content, so Thou let me lie before Thee. For Thou wilt not let those go empty away who come to thee from far. LORD, I am come to Thee from far, the far-off land of my miseries and my sins. But Thou hast brought me nigh. Thou hast withheld nothing, not even Thine Own Self, from me. How, then, should I again think Thee afar off because I do not feel Thee nigh, when, unseen,

veiled, Thou hast thus vouchsafed to come into my very soul?

After the Blessing.

GOOD JESU, not as I would, but as I could, I have sought Thee and found Thee. I have remembered Thy Death; destroy in me all which is dead and give me of the fulness of Thy Life. I have been filled with Thine unending life, yea with Thee Who art Life Eternal; live Thou on in me for ever. Again I have received Thee, the True Life; may my manifold receiving of Thee be manifold, multiplied life. Forgive, O dear LORD, whatever has been amiss. Let not my unworthiness hinder the fulness of Thy blessing.

Live on, reign, subdue my whole soul unto Thee. Possess it wholly, that it, with every power, may be wholly Thine. LORD, unworthy as I am, I bear Thee with me. Wherever I go, Thou art not with me only, Thou art Thyself within me. Make me greatly to love Thee, greatly to reverence Thee and myself too, to whom Thou hast deigned to come. I bear Thee within me; make me worthy of Thee; make me to keep myself diligently for love of Thee; change me into Thine own likeness. Thou hast given me Thyself; give me thoughts, words, acts, full of Thee and of Thy Love, that as I have received Thee, so I may be only a vessel of Thy Love. Amen.

Thanksgiving after the Holy Communion.

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Lo, O LORD, I now have Thee, Who hast all things: I possess Thee, Who canst and possessest all things; O then, my. GOD and my All, withdraw my heart from all besides, out of Thee, wherein is nothing but vanity and vexation of spirit. In Thee alone may my heart be fixed; in Thee be my rest, in Whom is my Treasure, the Highest Truth, and true Happiness and happy Eternity.

May my soul, O LORD, feel the sweetness of Thy Presence. May

it taste how sweet Thou art, O LORD, that allured by love of Thee, it may seek for nothing wherein to rejoice out of Thee; for Thou Alone art the Joy of my heart, my GOD, and my Portion for ever.

Thou art the Physician of my soul, Who hast healed my wounds with Thy Stripes. Lo! I am that sick, to heal whom Thou camest from heaven; heal, then, my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.

Thou art the good Shepherd Who layedest down Thy life for Thy sheep. Lo! I am that sheep which was lost, and yet Thou vouchsafest to feed me with Thy Body and Blood; take me now upon Thy shoulders. What wilt