|  | | My options! Let us be inspired for the weeks ahead by these words of St. Gertruds:
Oh, if my wish were granted that, with Jesus, the best beloved, you captured and bound me and treated me as your own heir!
By consorting and discoursing with this divine hostage, from a sinner I would be made into a saint;
from one useless into a true spiritual human being;
from an enemy into a true friend of God;
from one lukewarm into someone truly thirsting for God;
from one barren and unfruitful into one sprouting the perfection of all virtues and the holiness of all religion.
There, my dear Jesus, may the bosom of your divine heart be my bond in such a way that, in the violence of living love, I may become your prisoner forever, indivisibly glued to you, living entirely for you and clinging to you so that for eternity, I may never be capable of being separated from you. Amen.
Gertrud the Great of Helfta
Excercitia spiritualia 7/55-65
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