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Twice I remember having experienced in this manner the presence of Our Blessed Lord.

While this lasted I felt myself altogether another person.

His heroic virtues, His greatness, tenderness, and love seemed to inspire me with such a desire to follow Him and imitate His example that I lost sight of all things else.

His presence excited in me a greater love and esteem for the Christian virtues than I could have acquired otherwise in years and years.