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MORNING PRATER.

Lord God, whose mercy has preserved me from the dangers of the night, and whose power has brought me to the beginning of this day, inspire me with thoughts and desires becoming my helpless and dependent state. I adore thee as the Creator and sovereign Ruler of the universe ; I submit to the designs of thy all- wise providence. I love thee as the common Father of all mankind. I fear thee as the incorruptible and all-seeing Judge of my life. I dedicate to thee, as my first be- ginning and last end, all the thoughts, words, and deeds of this day. May justice and cha- rity regulate my actions, that I may be blame- less in thy sight ; and temperance and purity check my thoughts, that 1 may refrain from those carnal desires that war against the soul ; that so, all my faculties being employed in thy love and service, I may pass this day as becometh the follower of thy Son, Jesuc Christ, through whose merits alone , with the intercession of his blessed Mother and the Saints, I hope to see that everlasting day, of which this life is but the vigil, in those man- sions of glory, where he reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen