Life, work and spirituality of Mother Clelia Merloni

Written by Mother Clelia

Prayers written by Mother Clelia

Dialogue with God

Prayer is an elevation of our mind and our heart to heaven; it is an intimate conversation with God… (Mother Clelia, Words to Remember, n. 344)

Declaration of Love to my God

MY GOD, I adore you, I love you with all my heart, with all my soul.
MY GOD, I bless you for all you do and want to do.
MY GOD, I believe all that the Church teaches me to believe, and I would willingly give my life to defend the faith.
MY GOD, I give you my heart, my life, my future, my whole self…. forever.
MY GOD, I hope in you, in your pardon, in heaven.
MY GOD, I shall do all for you this day, this month, this year, always, until I breathe my last breath …. nothing, nothing to satisfy myself.
MY GOD, I will observe your commandments, your counsels, your inspirations.
MY GOD, I praise you and want to praise you with my lips, in my actions, by my sufferings.
MY GOD, receiving you in Holy Communion, I do not want for one instant to forget your presence.
MY GOD, I want you to be my nourishment… O Divine Eucharist, grant that I may seek you and always prepare a pure heart for you!
MY GOD, I unite myself to your angels, to your saints, to my poor daughters who love you and like them,
MY GOD, I shall obey you … Speak, Lord … Your unfaithful spouse is ready! …
MY GOD, I shall pray … much … I feel the need to pray. Give me love for prayer! …
MY GOD, I shall sacrifice myself! … What do you want me to avoid today?
MY GOD, I submit myself to you in everything … Oh! How wise, how good is your divine will ….
MY GOD, I shall be silent in moments of restlessness, ill temper and impatience.
I too want to love you!

I want to become a Saint

O Mary, as spouse of your Jesus I am your daughter, Help me, therefore, because I want to become a saint. I know I shall have to love humility, oblivion, charity, and to look for the last place everywhere and always to conquer and annihilate my pride, but it does not matter, I am resolute, I want to become a saint. I shall have to exercise extreme charity toward my neighbor, love him, bear with him and not complain when he may be unjust towards me, but nevertheless I want to become a saint. I know too that I shall always have to act in a spirit of faith and penance. I shall have to do everything under the gaze of God who is watching me. I shall often be troubled and will have to resist all my natural inclinations, but nonetheless, I want to become a saint. I shall have to make every effort to pray fervently in Chapel, avoid distractions and give good example by my demeanor and recollection, and no matter how painful it will be for me, I want to become a saint, at any cost. How can I become holy? By doing my day to day activities the best I can. Many saints in Heaven did nothing more than what I am doing here. I want to perform every action as if afterwards I would have to offer it in homage to God and to the Most Holy Virgin. Oh yes, my God! yes, I always want to do everything well. I want to become a saint.

To Jesus in the Eucharist

O my beloved Eucharistic Jesus, give me, I pray, the true spirit of an adorer so that I may adore you day and night and may make reparation for the offenses you receive in the Eucharist. I unite myself to all the holy souls who adore you on our altars, and to all those who will adore you throughout the ages, thus rendering my eternal homage, my love and my sorrow for having so offended you in this most marvelous mystery of your love.

Thanksgiving

I have a God in me, and thus I am a temple, a sanctuary, an altar which holds the divinity, surrounded by countless celestial spirits who adore him and render him their homage. I unite myself to you, O Blessed Spirits, I love and adore my Jesus with you. O celestial Spirits with the purity and the ardor of your homage and of your love, make up for the weakness of my sentiments. Let me unite my heart to yours and my spirit to yours to form a single heart and a single spirit to think of Jesus, to adore him, to love him, to praise him, if not as much as he deserves, at least as much as you are able.