Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

Lord Jesus Christ, who, that thou mightest give ns a salutary lesson of abstinence, by word Digitized by GOQQle 382 LITANY OF THE PASSION. and example, having taken on thee our frail nature, didst fast forty days, and thus teach men not to live on bread alone, but on the word of God, grant us to relish thy words sweeter than honey and the honey-comb, and to despise the incitements of appetite, making it not our god, but serving thee, our bounte- ous Lord, being mindful always of the un- paralleled sufferings of thee, our dear Re- deemer. Amen