Most sweet Lord Jesus,
pierce my inmost heart
with the most dear
and most bracing
wound of your love.
Pierce it with true, sincere,
apostolic, and most holy charity,
that my soul may ever yearn
and melt with love for you
and the desire to possess you.
May my soul be drawn toward you,
and overwhelmed with the hope
of entering your courts.
May it long to be dissolved
and to be with you.
Grant that my soul
may hunger for you,
the Bread of Angels
and the food of holy souls,
our supersubstantial Bread,
having in itself every sweetness
and good taste,
having the delightfulness
of all that charms my heart.
May my heart always long for you,
and find its nourishment in you,
on whom the angels long to gaze,
and may my inmost heart be filled
with the sweetness of your savor.
May my heart thirst for you,
the fountain of life, and of wisdom
and of knowledge, and of eternal life,
the torrent of pleasure, and the richness
of the house of God.
May my heart always draw near to you,
seek you, catch sight of you,
be drawn to you, and arrive at your presence.
May my heart think of you, speak of you,
and do all that it does for the glory of your name,
with humility and care and affection and delight,
with eagerness and with deep feeling,
and with perseverance to the end.
Thus may you alone always be my hope,
all my confidence, my joy, my rest
and my tranquility, my peace,
all that charms me; my fragrance,
my sweetness, my food, my nourishment,
my refuge, my help, my wisdom,
my portion, my possession, my treasure.
In you may my mind and my heart
be fixed and secure and rooted
forever without any change.
Amen.