26. Prayer

we beseech Thee, who alone art able, command the winds and the waves. Restore to mankind that true peace which the world can- not give, the peace which comes of good order. Let men impelled by thy grace return to a right and orderly course of life, practising again, as they ought, love towards Gop, justice and charity in dealing with their neighbour, temperance and self- control in their own lives. May thy kingdom come, and may those who now vainly and laboriously seek for truth and salvation, far removed from Thee, understand that they must live as thy ser- vants in subjection to Thee. Thy laws show forth thy justice and paternal gentleness, and to enable us to keep them, Thou dost freely supply by thy grace the ready means. The life of man on earth is a warfare, but ** Thou dost thyself behold the strife, 26 Leo XIII, January r9, 1889. 24 ALMIGHTY GOD Thou dost help man to conquer, raise him when he falls, and crown him when he is victorious."— pt Aup IPs 2/. Prayer. 100 Days, once a day. (See Instructions, p. 1.) LORD, who in the mystery of the glorious Transfiguration of thy Divine SoN, didst deign to make resplendent the truth of the holy Catholic Faith, and to confirm miraculously, by thy very word, spoken from a cloud, our perfect adoption as thy sons; we humbly beg of Thee to grant that we may in truth become coheirs of this same King of Glory, and share in thy everlasting happiness. Amen