Of the Holy Spirit, % to Be Born, to Be Circumcised,

That thou wouldst vouch- $ to be rejected by the Jews, to safe to defend and pro- be betrayed by the traitor Ju- pagate thy holy Church, >* das with a kiss, to be bound That thou wouldist vouch- j* with thongs, to be led as an safe to preserve and in- g* innocent lamb to the slaughter, crease all societies as- & and to be shamefully presented sembled in thy holy Name, g to the gaze of Annas, Caiaphas, That thou wouldst vouch- J* Pilate, and Herod; to be ac- safe to bestow upon us cused by false witnesses, to be true peace, humility, and insulted with scourgings and charity, revilings, to be spit upon aod That thou wouldst vouch- crowned with thorns, to be buf- safe to give us persever- feted upon the face and struck ance in grace and in thy with a reed, to be blindfolded, holy service, to be stripped of thy clothes, to That thou wouldst vouch- be fastened with nails to the safe to deliver us from cross, to be hoisted up thereon, unclean thoughts, the to be reckoned among thieves, temptations of the devil, to have gall and vinegar given and everlasting damna- thee to drink, and to be pierced tion, with a lance; through these That thou wouldst vouch- thy most holy Sufferings, which safe to unite us to the we, thy unworthy servants, de- company of thy Saints, voutly call to mind, and by thy LITANY OF THE HOLY CROSS. holy Crdss and by thy Death, duct the thief who was crucified deliver us (or this thy servant with thee. Who, with the Fa- N. in his aaony) from the pains ther and the Holy Ghost, livest of hell, and vouchsafe to con- and reignest, God, world with- duct us whither thou didst con- out end. Amen