You know it well, O Lord; if I love you, I do not love you for the Sky you promised me; if I fear to offend you, it is not for the hell that threatens me: that which attracts me to you, O Lord, is yourself, you alone: it is to see you, O my

Take Lord, and receive, all my freedom, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. You have given it all to me. To you, O Lord, I return it. All is Yours, use it entirely according to Your will. Your grace and Your love is enough for me. Give

Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures. I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend my

O my God, Trinity I adore, help me to totally set myself aside in order to establish myself in you, motionless and tranquil as if I were already in eternity. I want nothing to disturb my peace or even move away from you, or my Inalterable, but that every minute you take me further in

Father, origin and source of all good, we praise you and thank you because in the blessed cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster you have given us and made known a gentle and tireless pastor, "all-prayer" man, witness to the peace that only you can give. Lord Jesus, Son of God, you have been for the cardinal