(On the spirit of Obedience)

Become aware, my soul, before God:

1. Do you do your very best to know and to fulfil on time all your obligations?

2. Do you keep yourself, and do you try to grow more perfect in the spirit of religious obedience? Is your life of obedience motivated by a spirit of faith, love and humility?

3. In every act of obedience are you uniting yourself, mind and heart, to the divine will of God, which is all wisdom and love?

4. Did you consider your profession of obedience as the offering of your will to God? Did you comply with all your obligations with active and responsible obedience?

Act of contrition

OBEDIENCE

1. O my God and my all, O my Father, Son and Holy Spirit! You do not want to give to others the glory of being the first principle and the ultimate goal, and yet you have given me freedom to reproduce in myself your own image and likeness! I adore you!

2. I offer you all my freedom; I offer to you in sacrifice all the deficiencies of my freedom. I consecrate to you all my needs in union with the divine freedom of your will.

3. O my God you are the first principle and the ultimate goal of my whole being. I want you to be the first principle and the ultimate goal of each and every one of my internal and external acts; may everything I do be of glory to you!

4. With your grace, O divine will, I consecrate myself to the most perfect obedience to all your manifestations, following the example of the Church and of the Holy Family in order to reach union with the divine Trinity!

5. For your glory I want the most perfect obedience of mind, heart and action to every canonical, liturgical and civil law, to all private and common regulations of my religious family.

6. With your grace I want the most perfect obedience to my vocation and to all your inspirations, controlled and approved by my spiritual director.

7. With your grace, let me see and accept your will in the events of nature and in the desires of my neighbor, whenever possible. Grant that I may see your divine will in everything that is said and done to me, independently of my own will!

8. O divine will of God the Father, I want to be one with you! O divine will of God the Son, I want to be one with you! O divine will of God the Holy Spirit, I want to be one with you! In union with your sacred heart, O incarnate Word, who became obedient until death!

(Litany for the Dying, or a Psalm.)