{"id":3923,"date":"2011-02-12T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/praying-with-mother-yvonne-aim\/"},"modified":"2011-02-12T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:23:11","slug":"praying-with-mother-yvonne-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/praying-with-mother-yvonne-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying with Mother Yvonne-Aim&eacute;e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Yvonne%20Beauvais.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yvonne Beauvais.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Yvonne Beauvais-thumb-300x450-8610.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Is this not a lovely photo of the young Yvonne Beauvais?  There is a mysterious beauty in the purity of her gaze.  Already, she belonged entirely to Jesus.  I have long loved the prayer of hers that I translated below.  The one line, &#8220;Give Thou me what Thou wouldst have me give Thee,&#8221; is an assurance of Our Lord&#8217;s merciful goodness in those hours and on those days when all I know is my own weakness and poverty.<\/small><br \/>\nOn January 1, 1926, at the beginning of a year full of uncertainties, Yvonne Beauvais (the future Mother Yvonne-Aim&eacute;e de J&eacute;sus) invoked Saint Michael the Archangel, the glorious prince of the heavenly armies, against the world of darkness.  Then, in a surge of faith, she wrote this prayer in a new red notebook:<br \/>\n<strong>O Lord Jesus, I surrender myself fully<br \/>\nto all Thy mysterious operations in my soul.<br \/>\nI am nothing and can do nothing without Thee.<br \/>\nGive Thou me what Thou wouldst have me give Thee.<br \/>\nDo Thou in me all that Thou wouldst find in me<br \/>\nso that, out of my nothingness,<br \/>\nThou mayest draw all the glory and all the love<br \/>\nthat Thou hadst in view in creating me.<\/strong><br \/>\nShe added:<br \/>\n<strong>I will recite this prayer each day, doing my best to be very abandoned into His divine hands &#8212; seeing only Him through my neighbour &#8212; Him in the events of each day&#8211; Him always and everywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this not a lovely photo of the young Yvonne Beauvais? There is a mysterious beauty in the purity of her gaze. Already, she belonged entirely to Jesus. I have long loved the prayer of hers that I translated below. The one line, &#8220;Give Thou me what Thou wouldst have me give Thee,&#8221; is an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yvonne-aime-de-jsus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-11h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}