March 26th
Book Three, Chapter 48
Of the day of Eternity, and of the Distresses of this Life

I desire to cleave to heavenly things, but things temporal and my unmortified passions weigh me down....Recollect my senses in You; make me forget all worldly things; grant me speedily to cast away and to despise all phantoms and vice....Pardon  me also, and mercifully forgive me, as often as in my prayer I think of aught else beside You.  For I truly confess that I am accustomed to be very much distracted....But blessed is that man who for You, O Lord, abandons all things created; who offers violence to nature, and through fervor of spirit crucifies the concupiscence of the flesh; that so, with a serene conscience, he may offer to You pure prayer....