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Introduction to the Devout Life

Part II, Chapter 3

4 sections

St. Francis de Sales

INVOCATION is made as follows: your soul, having realised God’s Presence, will prostrate itself with the utmost reverence, acknowledging its unworthiness to abide before His Sovereign Majesty; and yet knowing that He of His Goodness would have you come to Him, you must ask of Him grace to serve and worship Him in this your meditation. You may use some such brief and earnest words as those of David: “Cast me not away from Thy Presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.” Ps. li. 11.

Ps. xxv. 4.

Ps. cxix. 34.

Ps. cxix. 125.

Trans. Anonymous, Library of Spiritual Works for English Catholics, 1876. Public domain.

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