Bless me, most loving Jesus, bless me and have mercy on me in the loving-kindness of your most gracious heart. That my soul may choose to know nothing apart from you and that, disciplined by your grace and instructed by the anointing, I may progress well, passionately, and powerfully in the school of your love. Almighty holy Paraclete, in the love with which you have marked me out for you with a spiritual name, grant me to love you with all my heart, to cling to you with all my soul, to expend all my force in your love and service, to live after your own heart, and, being prepared by you, to go, at the hour of death, spotless into your nuptials. Pray to the Virgin Mother herself to be your guide in [your] state of life.”
Gertrud the Great of Helfta, Spiritual Exercises – II: Spiritual Conversion (CF 49, p. 37, lines 51-55, 63-67)