” I am going to reveal to you a secret of sanctity and happiness. If everyday during five minutes you will silence your imagination, close your eyes to things of sense, and your ears to earthly sounds in order to enter into yourself, and there in the sanctuary of your baptized soul, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, speak to this Divine Spirit saying:

O Holy Spirit, Soul of my soul I adore you. Enlightened, guide, strengthen and console me; tell me what I should do; give me Your orders. I promise to be submissive in all that You desire of me and to accept all that You allow to happen to me. Grant only to me to know your will.

If you do this you will pass your life happily, serene and consoled, even in the midsts of pains, because grace will be in proportion to your trials giving you strenght to bear them. Thus you will arrive at the Gates of Heaven full of merit.

This submission to the Holy Spirit is the secret of sanctity.

(Cardinal Mercier)

Source: Pieta Prayer Booklet