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At the last Collect, which the priest reads with a loud voice. Meditate upon Christ's joyful and glorious resurrection. Mark xvi. 6. Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colos. iii. 3.

AFFECTIONS.

We look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory. Phil. iii. 20, 21.

When shall I come and appear before the face of God? Ps. xli. 2.

I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil. i. 23.

At the Benediction.

Meditate how Christ, ascending up into heaven, blessed his disciples. Mark xvi. 19. Unto this are ye called, that ye may inherit a blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9.

AFFECTIONS.

Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance. Ps. xxvii. 9.

May God our God bless us; may God bless us. Ps. lxvi. 7.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord; they shall praise thee for ever and ever. Ps. lxxxiii. 5.

PRAYER AT THE CONCLUSION OF MASS.

Accept, O holy Trinity, this sacrifice of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which I have offered to thy divine Majesty in remembrance of his passion and death; and by his infinite merits, I beseech thee, that all my defects and negligences may be supplied, for he is the propitiation for our sins.

Amen.

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n Exercise of Union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus during Mass.

It is in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass that Jesus Christ offers himself, for love of us, to the Divine Justice; it is, then, by assisting at this august Sacrifice, that we ought to honour his Sacred Heart. Meditate on his mercies towards all the children of Adam. Endeavour to shew as much sorrow for your sins as if you saw him crucified afresh on Calvary.

Make your Intention.

I offer thee, O my God, this august sacrifice, to honour thy unspeakable perfections, to thank thee for all the graces which thou hast so often heaped upon me, to ask thy pardon for my numberless infidelities, and to obtain of thee new favours.

O Jesus, grant me, I beseech thee, a constant attention, a profound reverence, a lively faith, and a tender devotion during the adorable sacrifice: set me on fire with the love of thee, that I may partake of the merits which thou hast obtained for me at the price of thy blood.

Whilst the Priest is at the foot of the Altar.

O divine Jesus, thou art the victim charged with all the iniquities of the world; thou didst weep for them bitter tears; thou didst expiate them by the most dreadful torments and by the most cruel of deaths. I come to mingle my tears with thine; I confess to thee, in the presence of Mary ever Virgin and of all the Saints, that I have sinned exceedingly; that it is my ingratitude that

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pierced thy heart, and put thee to a cruel death. God, my Saviour, through thy tears, through thy agony in the Garden of Olives, through thy precious blood and the wound in thy Sacred Heart, I beseech thee to pardon me, and grant me the remission of all my sins.

At the Introit.

Let us adore the Heart of Jesus, which has loved us so much; let us prostrate ourselves before him, and bewail the sins of which we have been guilty. Grant us, O Lord, a contrite and humble heart; let the homage of our adorations be as acceptable to thee as if we offered thee thousands of victims."

At the Kyrie.

O Father of infinite mercy, have pity on thy children; O Jesus, immolated for us, apply to us the merits of thy precious blood; O Holy Ghost, the Sanctifier, descend into our hearts, and inflame them with thy love.

At the Gloria in excelsis.

What happiness for us that the Son of the Most High should have been pleased to dwell amongst us, and have vouchsafed to offer us a dwelling in his Divine Heart! Suffer us, O Lord, to mingle our voices with those of the angelic choir, to thank thee for so great a favour; and let us say with them: "Glory to God in the highest heavens." O almighty Father, we praise thee, we bless thee, we adore thee, we give thee thanks for all the benefits which thou hast lavished upon us without ceasing. O Jesus, Lamb without spot, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord, who reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost in glory, and meritest all our homage on earth.

At the Collects.

O divine Jesus, inexhaustible fountain of all good things, open to us, we beseech thee, the interior of thy Heart; that, having entered, by pious meditation, into this august sanctuary of divine love, we may fix for

ever there our hearts, as the place wherein are found the treasure, the repose, and the happiness of holy souls ; who livest and reignest for ever and ever.

At the Epistle.

"He shall grow up as a tender plant before the Lord, and as a root out of a thirsty ground; there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised; whereupon we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our infirmities, and carried our sorrows; and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him." (Is. liii. 2-8.)

At the Gradual.

Let the tears flow from our eyes, day and night, as a torrent; let our hearts be poured out like water before the Lord let us raise up our hands to him.

Heart of Jesus, pardon thy children; let not thy heritage fall into reproach; save us, and we will never cease to sing thy mercies.

At the Gospel.

O Lord Jesus, teach us what we ought to do to gain eternal life.

"My little children, I give you a new commandment : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you the Spirit of truth, whom the world knoweth not. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you; you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. He that keepeth my commandments, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will open to him my heart. Abide in me; if any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall cast him into the fire, and he burneth. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. It is the will of my Father that you bring forth good fruit, and become my disciples. A little while, and you shall not see me; you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man shall take from you. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we also are. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me, that they may see my glory." (Compare John xiii.xvii.)

At the Credo.

I believe, O my God, the truths which thou hast revealed to thy Church. I desire to live and die in this faith. Grant, O Lord, that my life may be conformable with my faith, that my faith may be animated by good works, that I may never be ashamed to declare myself a Catholic, and may constantly maintain the interests of thy holy religion."

O Church of Rome, the persecutions which thou hast

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