towards Thee,
the souls of all those she loves are drawn in her train.

Just as a torrent carries into the depths of the sea all that it
meets on its way, so, my Jesus, does the soul who plunges into the
shoreless ocean of Thy Love bring with it all its treasures. My
treasures are the souls it has pleased thee to unite with mine;
Thou hast confided them to me, and therefore I do not fear to use
Thy own words, uttered by Thee on the last night that saw Thee
still a traveller on this earth. Jesus, my Beloved! I know not
when my exile will have an end. Many a night I may yet sing Thy
Mercies here below, but for me also will come the last night, and
then I shall be able to say:

"I have glorified Thee upon earth: I have finished the work which
Thou gavest me to do. I have manifested Thy name to the men whom
Thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me
Thou gavest them; and they have kept Thy word. Now they have known
that all things which Thou hast given me are from Thee: because
the words which Thou gavest me I have given to them; and they
have received them, and have known for certain that I came forth
from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send me. I pray
for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom Thou hast
given me, because they are Thine. And all mine are Thine, and
Thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more
in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy
Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given me, that they
may be one, as we also are one. And now I come to Thee, and these
things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in
themselves. I do not ask that Thou take them away out of the
world, but that Thou preserve them from evil. They are not of the
world, as I also am not of the world. And not for them only do I
pray, but for those also who through their word shall believe in
me. Father, I will that where I am they also whom Thou hast given
me may be with me, that they may see my glory which Thou hast
given me, because Thou hast loved me before the foundation of the
world. And I have made known Thy name unto them, and will make it
known, that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me may be in them
and I in them."[2]

Yea, Lord, thus would I repeat Thy words, before losing myself in
Thy loving embrace. Perhaps it is daring, but, for a long time,
hast thou not allowed me to be daring with Thee? Thou hast said to