St. Ignatius recommends us to dwell sometimes when we contemplate, on this thought, “This is all for me.'' We must try to believe more and more firmly this great truth which arms us well against all hopeless thoughts or enkindles the fire of love. All this contrition is for me and for my sins. How far short, then, my contrition is of what it should be! Blessed Mother of Sorrows, pray for me now and at the hour of my death, that I may see clearly, while I look on the agony of thy Son, the truth of that word : “Know then and see that it was an evil and a bitter thing for thee to have left the Lord thy God." (Jerem. ii.) Alas, I knew not what I was doing. I knew not how evil and bitter a thing it was. I "sinned and said: “What harm hath befallen me?" I sinned, and how little have I as yet realized the force of those words far more applicable to me than to the Jews: “Is this the return that you makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not He thy Father that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?" (Deut. xxxii.)
“According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, O Lord, blot out my sins. For I will declare my iniquity and I will think for my sins." (Psalm xxxvii.)
All this contrition is for me, to be added to mine. Therefore, when I go to the sacred tribunal, I have something better to rely upon than my own feeble act of contrition. Jesus Christ, my surety, my Savior, is uniting all His great contrition with my most insufficient sorrow.
- Father Gallwey S.J.
“According to the multitude of thy tender mercies, O Lord, blot out my sins. For I will declare my iniquity and I will think for my sins." (Psalm xxxvii.)
All this contrition is for me, to be added to mine. Therefore, when I go to the sacred tribunal, I have something better to rely upon than my own feeble act of contrition. Jesus Christ, my surety, my Savior, is uniting all His great contrition with my most insufficient sorrow.
- Father Gallwey S.J.
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