Devotion to Jesus every day: prayer of February 18th

Consider Soul devote as the Lovers of Jesus come so much in afflictions, and consoled troubles, and sustained by his sweet Name, who rather love to be afflicted to taste their sweetness, than to stay without them. Therefore St. Bernard said to come from the Bride of Canticles such a Name compared to oil: Oleum effusum nomen tuum; while as the oil light, grazes, and anoints, it is light, food, and thus medecines every food of the Soul, without the Name of Jesus, is insipid and dry. If you also write about tasty and sublime materials, your heart does not taste sweetness, if Jesus is not read in them. If you preach, dispute, or confer, sweetness is not seen, if Jesus does not resonate there. mouth, melody in the ear, jubilation in the heart. And this name made the torments of the martyrs sweet, the pains of the virgins, the afflictions of the saints, so reduced to the last exhaustion of life with the invocation of Jesus, they were relieved, until one remembers the suffered travails.

So, what can we get down in tribulations, if it arises against us proudly, to perhaps throw ourselves into the bosom of despair, if with the only Name of Jesus we can lift ourselves to Heaven lighten our burdens? To Jesus therefore, Christian soul, To Jesus, who is the safe haven in which Shipwreck does not suffer: the Morning Star, which clears the darkness of the Night in the way of Health, the faithful Sentinel, who discovers your enemies, and I flee them, and the yoke makes you sweet of the Gospel law.

Interview.

Hear Jesus Most Beautiful Name, how worthy you are that your devout Servants invoke you, if you are ready you will rush to console them in all their needs, in all their occurrences. Oh, hurry up again to console this soul of mine, that although afflicted, because fought by fierce enemies, and perhaps far from you for its bad work, it also hopes to find the prodigal son in your bosom the Clemency of Father, and repeat the words of S. Anselmo: If you are Salvadore you fulfill the commitment to save my soul. Be Jesus and do not allow me to lose myself: esto mihi Jesus et save me.

They will say Nove Pater, Ave, and Gloria in honor of the consolation that said Name brings.