122. Devotion of the Seven Words

grant us grace to offer Thee with all our hearts the sacrifice of our life, in expiation for our sins. Gloria PATRI, 7/Azzce. Y. Have mercy, efc. My Gop, erc. SEVENTH Wonp: Father, into Thy hands I com- mend My spirit. —— Y.

We adore Thee, ec. | ESUS, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and who in accom- plishment of the great sacrifice didst accept the will of thine Eternal FATHER, commending thy spirit into his hands, and so didst bow thy head and die; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, give us in our agony an entire conformity to thy divine will, that ready to live or die as it please Thee, we may desire nothing so much as that thine adorable will may ever find its full accomplishment in us. Gloria PATRI, thrice. Y. Have mercy, etc. My Gop, erc. JESUS CRUCIFIED Prayer to the Holy Virgin, Mother of Sorrows. OST Holy Mother of sorrows, by that intense martyrdom which thou didst suffer at the foot of the Cross during the three hours of the agony of Jesus, deign to aid us all, children of thysorrows, in our last agony, that by thy prayers we may pass from our bed of death to adorn thy crown in Para- dise. Ave Maria, ¢hrice. Maria, mater gratize, Mater misericordize, Tu nos ab hoste protege, Et mortis hora suscipe. Y. Asubitanea et impro- visa morte, ky. Libera nos, DOMINE. Y. Ab insidiis diaboli, ky. Libera nos, DoMINE. Y. A morte perpetua, ky. Libera nos, DoMINE. Oremus. EUS, qui ad humani generis salutem in dolorosissima FI Li tui morte exemplum et sub- sidium constituisti; con- cede, quasumus, ut in extremo mortis nostrae periculo tantz charitatis effectum consequi et ip- sius Redemptoris gloria consociari mereamur. Per eundem CuristuM Dowr- NUM nostrum. Ry. Amen