耶穌聖心節的彌撒結束了，白多麗跑回家告訴他母親：

「今天晚上的聖心遊行，我被選去抬聖轎。喔！媽媽，我非常高興，因為我非常愛耶穌聖心，我要為祂做偉大的事。」

母親回答說：「我希望主耶穌常把妳放在祂可敬的聖心中。」

遊行的時候，多麗許下她要忠實地服侍聖心，永遠不拒絕祂愛的要求，甚至痛苦犧牲也在所不惜。

   幾年過去了，多麗忘記她對基督忠貞的誓言，被世俗的誘惑弄得眼花撩亂，但在她的心靈深處，好像聽到內在的聲音告訴她：

「孩子，妳不是為了這樣的生活而被造，妳有一顆對於一般枯燥無味的生活永遠不會感到滿足的心；妳受造是為了更高貴的事，否則妳永遠不會快樂。」

這甜蜜動人的聲音消滅了多麗對於世俗的享樂。一天，當她要去找樂子的路上，發生了車禍。當車禍來臨時，她祈求耶穌聖心救她。她的兩個同伴當場死亡，由於耶穌聖心的助佑，她逃過一劫，只受了一點輕傷。她被帶到醫院，在那兒住了幾天。

   當多麗出院回家時，她的父母發現她改變了許多。他們認為是受了車禍的驚嚇，和她同伴的恐怖命運的影響。他們用各種各樣的娛樂來分散她的恐懼和悲哀。多麗很感激他們，接受他們的好意，但她再也不喜歡那種短暫的娛樂。她常常去聖堂，在那兒反省，如何回報聖心賜給她特別的恩佑。

   耶穌聖心節到了，多麗跪在祭台前，再次的做了決定；她要用她的一生來服務可愛的聖心；她要入一個專門照顧窮人、病患、和無知的人的修會。

   

多麗入初學院的那一天，她感覺到耶穌聖心接納了她小時候所訂的可愛的願望，她跪在祭台前，深深地感謝天主，她的心湧出了聖依納爵的美麗禱詞：

「主，請祢收納我的記憶、我的理智、和我整個的意志。

凡我所享有、所擁有的一切，都是祢所賞賜的，我願意完全奉還給祢，任憑聖意安排。   

只求將祢的聖愛、和祢的聖寵，賞賜給我，我便心滿意足，別無所求了。」

 

 

    

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5.Never Abandon the Love of Sacred Heart of Jesus

        As soon as Mass was over on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Doris Burke ran home to tell her mother that a procession was going to take place that evening and that she had been chosen to carry the statue.   “Oh, mother, I am so glad, for I love the Sacred Heart so much that I want to do something great for Him.”   “I hope that the Lord will always keep you within His adorable Heart, my child,” replied her mother.   During the procession, Doris promised the Sacred Heart that she would always serve Him faithfully and never refuse what His love would ask, even though it might cost painful self-sacrifice.

        With the passing of the years, however, she forgot her pledge of fidelity to Christ and became greatly dazzled by the allurements of the world.   Still within her heart, from time to time, she seemed to hear an interior voice saying to her:   “Child, you were not made for a life like this.   You have a heart that will never rest content with the dry husks of an ordinary life; you are made for something higher or you never will be happy.”   This sweet, inspiring voice Doris stifled in the enjoyment of her worldly life.   One day, when she was on her way to a place of amusement, she was the victim of a car accident.   When the crash came, she called upon the Sacred Heart to save her.   Two of her companions were instantly killed, but she escaped with slight injuries, owing to the loving protection of the Heart of Christ.   She was taken to the hospital and detained there for some days.

       One evening, as she lay in a semi-conscious state, she thought the Sacred Heart stood by her bed, and said to her:   “You have tasted the cup of pleasure, and I have now given you the experience of pain that you may realize that true happiness consits in the love and service of my adorable Heart.”

        When Doris came home from the hospital, her parents noted how serious she had become.   They attributed it to the shock of the accident and the terrible fate of her companions.   To distract her they surrounded her with amusements and pleasures of all kinds.   While the girl received their kind endeavors with gratitude, she no longer had any relish for such fleeting joys.   Often she would make her way to the church and there reflect as to how she could repay the divine Heart for all the special graces He had showered upon her.

        When the Feast of the Sacred Heart came, Doris knelt before the altar once more and made her final decision: she would spend her life in the service of that loving Heart; she would enter an Order where she could care for Him in the person of the poor, sick and ignorant.

        On the day she entered the novitiate, she felt that the Sacred Heart had accepted her loving desires expressed when but a child. As Doris knelt before the altar, with deepest gratitude her heart framed the beautiful prayer of St. Ignatius:   “Take, O Lord, and receive my memory, my understanding, and my whole will; all that I have and all that I am I give You to be made use of according to Your good pleasure. Give me only Your love and Your grace – with these I am rich enough.”