Let Your love so warm our souls, O Lord, that we may gladly surrender ourselves with all we are and have to You. Let Your love fall as fire from heaven upon the altar of our hearts. Teach us to guard it carefully by continual devotion and quietness of mind. Grant us to cherish with anxious care every spark of its holy flame with which Your good Spirit would enliven us. May we hold fast to the truth that neither height, nor depth, things present nor things to come, may ever separate us from your love. Strengthen our souls; awaken us from the deathly sleep which holds us captive. Animate our cold hearts with Your warmth and tenderness, that we may no more live as in a dream, but walk before You as pilgrims earnestly making our way towards home. And grant us all at last to meet with Your holy saints before Your throne, and there rejoice in Your love forever and ever–Amen.
