” We must offer Him pure souls, clean, to this Divine Child, who is born to us, the Author of all purity and holiness. This is the most agreeable present we could make Him, a clean, contrite and humbled heart; He wishes only for our heart. Is it not more than reasonable that we should give Him what He asks, because He comes to give us His life? Let us open to Him our hearts and let us give them wholly to Him for His dwelling.”
St. Jane de Chantal, Exhortation V, 1629
