Eucharistic Reflection - Prayer To The Hidden Prisoner of the Tabernacle

"Oh God, hidden in the prison of the Tabernacle! I come with joy to You each evening to thank You for the graces You have given me. I ask pardon for the faults I committed today, which just has slipped away like a dream.

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O Jesus, how happy I would be if I had been faithful, but Alas! Often in the evening I am sad because I feel I could have corresponded better with Your graces ... If I were more united to You, more charitable, more humble, and more mortified, I would feel less sorrow when I talk with You in prayer.

And yet, O my God, very far from becoming discouraged at the sight of my miseries, I come to You with confidence, recalling that “those who are well do not need a doctor but the sick do. “ I beg You, then, to cure me and pardon me. I will keep in mind, Lord, “that the soul to whom You have forgiven more should also love You more than the others!” ... I offer You every beat of my heart as so many acts of love and reparation, and I unite them to Your infinite merits. I beg you, O my Divine Bridegroom, to be the Restorer of my soul, to act in me despite my resistance, and lastly, I wish to have no other will but Yours. Tomorrow, with the help of Your grace, I will begin a new life in which each moment will be an act of love and renunciation.

Thus, after coming each evening to the foot of Your altar, I will finally reach the last evening of my life. Then will begin for me the unending day of eternity when I will place in Your Divine Heart the struggles of exile! Amen"

(Prayer to Jesus in the Tabernacle by St. Therese of Lisieux from St. Faustina Prayer Book For Adoration)