"Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds." (Psalm 36:5)

Meditation: "If your Justice loves to express itself in earthly matters, how much more does your Merciful Love seek to (express itself in spiritual matters) by enflaming souls, since your Mercy rises to the Heavens."<sup>†

"For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see." (Psalm 36:9)</sup>
Meditation: Lord, you are the living water that quenches my thirst and revives my soul.

^†de Lisieux, St. Thérèse. La Bible avec Thérèse de Lisieux. Paris, France: Les Éditions du Cerf et Desclée De Brouwer, 1979. 74. Print. Trans. John P. Gross.

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Here is the ninth prayer from my book, 100 Prayers of Purity for the Mission of Our Lady of America. Enjoy!

Prayer 9

Madonna in Glory¹

<sup>The first time our loving Savior shed His Precious Blood for us was on the eighth day after His birth, when He was circumcised in order to accomplish the law of Moses. While, then, we reflect that Jesus did this to satisfy the justice of God for our dissolute lives, let us excite ourselves to true sorrow for them, and promise, with the help of his all-powerful grace, to be henceforth truly chaste in body and in soul. Amen.17

1"Madonna in Glory." Web. 18 May 2016.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Dolci_ Madonna_ p1070185.jpg>
17"Raccolta: Precious Blood of Jesus Chaplet First Mystery." Web. 20 May 2016.</sup> 
<http://www.liturgialatina.org/raccolta/jesus.htm>.

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