Offering of myself as a Victim to God's merciful Love

O my God, most Blessed Trinity, I desire to love You and make You loved, to work for the glory of your Holy Church by saving souls here below and delivering those who are suffering in purgatory.  I desire to perfectly fulfill your will and to reach the degree of glory You have prepared for me in your heavenly kingdom.  In one word, I desire to be a Saint, but I know how helpless I am and beg You, O my God! to be Yourself my Holiness.

Since You loved me so much that you gave me your only Son as Savior and Spouse, the infinite treasures of his merits are mine.  I joyfully offer them to You, begging You only to see me reflected in the Face of Jesus and in his Heart aflame with love.

In addition I offer You all the merits of the Saints (in Heaven and here on earth), their acts of Love as well as those of the Holy Angels.  Finally I offer You, O Blessed Trinity! the Love and merits of the Blessed Virgin, my dearest Mother; to her I give my offering, beseeching her to present it to You.

My Beloved Spouse, her divine Son, while here on earth said: "If you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you!"  So, I am certain You will grant my prayer, O my God!  I know that the more You want to give the more You make us desire.  In my heart I feel immense desires, and I confidently ask You to take possession of my soul.  I cannot receive Holy Communion as often as I would like; but Lord are you not the All Powerful?… Abide in me as You do in the tabernacle, do not ever abandon Your little host…

I want so much to console you for the ingratitude of the wicked and I implore You to take from me all possibility of displeasing You.  If through weakness I sometimes fall may your Divine Glance immediately purify my soul, consuming all my imperfections, as the burning fire transforms all things into itself…

I thank You, O my God! for all the graces You have bestowed on me and especially for having purified my soul in the crucible of suffering.  How joyfully I will contemplate You on the last day, when I see you carrying your scepter the Cross.  Because you have let me share that precious Cross,  I hope to resemble You in Heaven and see shining on my glorified body the holy wounds of your Passion…

After this earthly exile I hope to enjoy You forever in Paradise, but I do not want to lay up treasures for myself in Heaven.  I wish to work only for love of You, with the sole aim of pleasing You , of consoling Your Sacred Heart, and of saving souls who will love You for all eternity.

In the evening of this life, I will appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my good works.  All our righteousness is imperfect in your eyes.  I wish therefore to be clad in your Righteousness and to receive from your Love the everlasting gift of Yourself.  I desire no other Throne or Crown than You, O my Beloved!…

In your sight time is nothing, one day is as a thousand years.  In a single instant You can prepare me to appear before You…
So that my life may be one single act of perfect Love, I offer myself as a holocaust to your Merciful Love, imploring You to consume me without cease, allowing me the waves of your infinite tenderness to overflow into my soul, that I become a Martyr of Your Love, O my God!…

May this martyrdom after having prepared me to appear before You, cause me at last to die and may my soul fly without delay into the eternal embrace of Your Merciful Love…

O my Beloved, I desire with each heartbeat, to renew this offering an infinite number of times, until the shadows flee and I can forever repeat my Love to You in an Eternal Face to Face.

-- Marie Francoise Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
unworthy Carmelite
Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity
on the 9th day of June in the year of grace 1895.