A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary
A Canticle of Love
(According to the Spirituality of the Canticle of Canticles)
THE SOUL: O Jesus … the only desire of my soul, only good of my being, come!
With the sighs of my soul I call upon you because you are the only true beauty, come!
My beloved is snow-white as a lily, ruddy as a rose … his flowing disheveled hair attracts me … how beautiful you are, O beloved of my soul! … Come! …
Everything becomes a voice that calls me to you alone because where you pass you strew a thousand allurements of love! … You smiled upon creation and it became a delightful harmony that speaks of you … Come!
I am an exile and pilgrim in this vale of tears, but you have shown yourself to me as my all … come, O Jesus, yes, come!
My voice is weak, but I unite it to the concert of all creation; it becomes strong with your very merits … come, O my Spouse!
I went wandering the ways of the world, but couldn’t find you … I asked the sentries about you … but they only keep watch over little human miseries … I kept walking and walking and then in the solitude of the lilies I saw you!
What a vision of love! Your clothing was snow-white; around your head there was an aureole of glory and from your lips came a word of love! … How beautiful you are! …
My step is slight; I sigh for you with all of the impulse of my soul, come, O Jesus! My soul loves you, it loves you … it loves you, O infinite God because you are my only desire … Come! …
O don’t distract me from my Beloved, o little things of the earth; you are a fatuous light and I find in you only coldness and death! It is only my Jesus that I desire … Come, O Jesus! …
I want love in this poor soul of mine and you alone give it to me: come, O Jesus!
I desire sufferings because through the sufferings I will love you the more. The sufferings you send are only a path of charity; come, bring me the cross, come into my soul!
I love you, O my only true good! Please don’t gaze on me any more … the heart inflames me with love and then leaves me desolate and poor! I will then love you between the delightful beatings of my heart with a disinterested love … Come, O Jesus!
I love you, Jesus, and because I love you I desire only you!
Let the creatures torment me; they only drive me closer to you … Among the contradictions which they will cause me, you will hear all the better the voice of my love … Come! …
They despise me as inept and I really am because I am nothing but misery! But to my nothingness you are a support, you are peace, you are all because you are Jesus! … Come! …
Jesus, my Jesus, your little creature gets disturbed, but does little; you know me well … hence come to me and raise me up in your mercy … Come, O Jesus! …
Love, love, how delightful you are when you are born of that Heart of divine fire, of my Jesus! Look at me, O my Angels; Jesus has already bound me to him … My love, give me a kiss of mercy and of love! …
O Jesus, you have already come … O that I might die, then, in a cry of love … I love you! …
The bonds that bind us are sealed in your Blood … you will cast me away from you no more for you are too good! …
O Jesus, O Jesus, O my love … you alone! …
You are here in my heart! … you alone! …
You are king of my soul! … you alone! …
You are my peace! … you alone! …
You are all, O my love! … you alone! …
I no longer have the strength to speak … my Love! …
Praise God from the heavens; praise him, O Angels, praise him, all creatures; praise him, O Mary! … God alone! …
ASPIRATION: Long live Jesus! … Thank you, O Jesus, who live in my soul!
LITTLE WORK: Seek pardon of the person you have most offended or who has a grudge against you so that the aversion and upset do not block love.