439. Prayers for a Happy Death

grant that I may expire the victim of penance; and then, in that dreadful moment, merciful JEsus, have mercy on me. MISCELLANEOUS 377 When my friends and relations, encircling my bed, shall be moved with compassion for me, and invoke thy clemency in my behalf, merciful JEsus, have mercy on me. When I shall have lost the use of my senses, when the world shall have vanished from my sight, when I shall groan with anguish in my last agony and the pangss of death, merciful JEsus, have mercy on me. When my last sighs shall force my soul to issue from my body, accept them as born of a loving impatience to come to thee; merciful Jesus, have IUELCV DH Mme, When my soul, trembling on my lips, shall bid adieu to the world, and leave my body lifeless, pale and cold, receive this separation as a homage which I willingly pay to thy Divine Majesty, and in that last moment of my mortal life, merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. When at length my soul, admitted to thy pre- sence, shall first behold the immortal splendour of thy Majesty, reject it not, but receive me into the loving embrace of thy mercy, where I may for ever sing thy praises; merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. Der Us prav. GOD, who hast doomed all men to die, but hast concealed from all the hour of their death, grant that I may pass my days in the practice of holiness and justice, and that I may be made worthy to quit this world in the embrace of thy love, through the merits of our Lorp Jesus Cunisr, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Hoty Spirit. Amen