Before you, O Lord, I am a sinner and nothing but dust; I live by your mercy, to which I owe everything and from which I expect everything; I submit to you even if you wish me to be wholly transformed by your pains and sufferings, in the entire abandonment of absolute obedience and conformity to your will.
Now more than ever, and as long as I live, and in all things, obedience and peace. I ask you for perfect readiness to live and die, like St Peter and St. Paul, and to endure all, even chains, sufferings, anathema and martyrdom, for holy Church and for all the souls redeemed by you I feel the awesomeness of my responsibility and I tremble, knowing myself to be weak and backsliding.
But I trust in you, Christ crucified, and in your Mother, and I fix my eyes on eternity.
John XXIII, Journal of a Soul
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