104. Act Of Hope # 4 (By Saint Augustine Of Hippo)

For Your mercies' sake, O Lord my God, 
tell me what You are to me. 
Say to my soul: "I am your salvation." 
So speak that I may hear, O Lord; 
my heart is listening; 
open it that it may hear You, 
and say to my soul: "I am your salvation." 
After hearing this word, 
may I come in haste to take hold of you. 
Hide not Your face from me. 
Let me see Your face even if I die, 
lest I die with longing to see it. 
The house of my soul is too small to receive You; 
let it be enlarged by You. 
It is all in ruins; 
do You repair it. 
There are thing in it, 
I confess and I know,
that must offend Your sight. 
But who shall cleanse it? 
Or to what others besides You shall I cry out? 
From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord, 
and from those of others spare your servant. 

Amen.