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I offer thee this book, O Lord Jesus Christ, Fount of eternal light, in union with that ineffable charity which moved thee, the only begotten of the Father, in the plenitude of the Divinity, to take upon thyself our nature and to become man; I beseech thee to take it into thy divine keeping, that it may glorify thy divine bounty towards us, vile creatures that we are. And since thou, the Almighty Dispenser of all good things, dost vouchsafe to nourish us during our exile, until, beholding thy glory with nnveiled countenance, we are(...)".