Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.

Excerpted from…

The

Catholic Girl’s Guide

Counsels and Devotions

for

Girls in the Ordinary Walks of Life,

and in particular for

the Children of Mary.

edited by the

Rev. Francis X. Lasance.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago:

Benziger Brothers,

Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.

Nihil Obstat.

Remigius Lafort,

Censor Librorum.

Imprimatur.

✠ John M. Farley,

Archbishop of New York.

New York, December 18, 1905.