Act of Oblation to Merciful Love (St. Thérèse of Lisieux)

O my God, most Blessed Trinity, I desire to love you and to make you loved, to work for the glory of holy Church by saving souls on earth and by delivering those suffering in purgatory. I desire to accomplish your will perfectly and to reach the degree of glory you have prepared for me in your kingdom. In a word, I wish to be a saint, but I feel my helplessness, and I beg you, O my God, to be yourself my sanctity. In order to live in one single act of perfect love, I offer myself as a victim of holocaust to your merciful love, asking you to consume me incessantly, allowing the waves of infinite tenderness shut up within you to overflow into my soul, that thus I may become a martyr of your love, O my God. Amen.