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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

and giving up your attachment to them, when you meditate on the Most Holy Sacrament See, therefore, what you will do. Look at what God has done for you; look at what you have done, and what you are going to do for Him ; think of what you are and what God is ; think of what, at the Day of Judgment, you would wish, for His sake, to have given up. That is what you must now forsake. Are you doing so, do you intend to do so ? Those creatures, those worldly goods, those honours, that self, which keep you so attached to them — what will become of all these at the hour of your death ? What will become of that world that you care so much about — those conversations in society, your beauty, your wit, the love of creatures ?

Alas, how odious all these vanities will then seem to you ! They will pass for ever with the world that you must leave for ever.

Ah, how much sweeter that Divine Love rather than the inevitable necessity of death should detach us from ourselves and the world ! I say to you once more—and I repeat it—think well of this, consider carefully all the hidden thoughts of your heart, and put from it all that is not good, all that does not tend to pure love, all that tends to the love of creatures. I know not what you will do, but I know well what you ought to do, and I know also that, if you do it not, all is lost for you, and you will lose yourself; therefore, with all the love of my heart, I cry out to you—Is it possible that