Instructions on Indulgences

O Lord, thy wrath, which we have reason to apprehend actually hanging over our heads for our sins. Deliver all Christian people from the dreadful evil of mortal sin; make all sinners sensible of their misery; give them the grace of a sincere conversion to thee, and a truly penitential spirit, and discharge them from all their bonds. Preserve all Christendom, and, in particu- lar, this nation, from all the evils that threaten impeni- tent sinners, such as plagues, famines, earthquakes, fires, inundations, mortality of cattle, sudden and unprovided death, and thy many other judgments here, and eternal damnation hereafter. Comfort all that are under any affliction, sickness, or Violence of pain ; support all that are under temptation ; reconcile all that are at variance ; deliver all that are in slavery or captivity; defend all that are in danger ; grant a relief to all in their respec- tive necessities ; give a happy passage to all that are in their agony.

Grant thy blessing to our friends and be- nefactors, and to all those for whom we are particularly bound to pray; and have mercy on all our enemies. Give eternal rest to all the faithful departed ; and bring us all to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ thy Son. Amen