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blessed Mother sorrow-
ing and making lamenta-
tion,

By thy heaviness of soul
and the going up the
Mount of Calvary, where
thou wert crucified,
By the stripping of thy
clothes to thy great
shame, in the sight of thy
blessed Mother and all
the people,

By that cold sitting, wherein thou sattest piteously, full of wounds, in the cold winds, so abiding until thy cross was ready, For those sore and painful steps thou madest going to thy cross,

For thy great anguish, mournings, and weepings,

For the great stretching of thy sinews and veins, and all thy members,

By the nailing of thy right hand and shedding of thy precious blood, cleanse us, Lord, from all sin, and By the nailing of thy left hand, and thy most holy wound and precious blood, save us, and For the nailing of thy most holy feet, and by the wounds in them, and the precious blood flowing out of them, Purge us, enlighten us, and reconcile us to God the Father, and

For the lifting up of thy most holy body on the cross, and thy sore bruising thereof, that gave to all parts of thy body an incredible pain,

For the heaviness of thy

Have mercy on us.

heart, and all the powers of thy soul, save us, deliver us, and For the parting of thy clothes, and the lot that they cast upon thy coat, that was made without seam, thou beholding it, For thy great love, whereby thou didst hang alive upon the cross three hours,

For the opprobrious and scornful words, which, hanging on the cross, thou heardest spoken to thee,

For the blaspheming, sorrow,and confusion, which thou sufferedst on the cross,

For all the sorrow and pain

that thou sufferedst in thy ribs, reins, and shoulders, in time of thy crucifying,

For all the pain thou sufferedst in thy hands and feet, and the straining of all thy members on the

cross,

For that wonderful charity, wherewith thou prayedst thy Almighty Father for thine enemies,

For thy great mercy,wherewith thou promisedst paradise to the thief hanging on thy right side, For the tender care that thou hadst for thy Mother in thy torments, commending her to thy well beloved disciple John,

For that great and miserable cry that thou madest to thy Father,

For the sword of sorrow

Have mercy on us.

that went through the soul of thy blessed Mother, and her great compassion and tears, that, standing by the cross, lamentably she shed, For those holy tears that thou sheddest on the cross, and in all thy life-time, For thy thirst and tasting of gall and vinegar, grant us to taste the sweetness of thy spirit, and For all those holy words that thou spakest on the cross, and in all thy life, For that piteous cry, in the which thou commendedst thy soul to thy Father, our souls be commended to thee; and

By the departing of thy holy soul from thy blessed godly body,

By the resting of thy most blessed head upon thy breast, incline, most sweet Jesus, to us; and By the bitterness of thy death, and the intolerable pains wherewith thy heart brake, By the opening of thy side with a spear, and the flowing out of thy most precious blood, smite through, good Lord, my heart with the spear of thy godly love; and By that precious blood and water that ran out of thy most holy heart, wash and cleanse us in the same most holy water and blood from all our sins; and

For that great mercy_that thou shewedst to Longinus the soldier, and to

Have mercy on us.

the centurion; and all thy mercies that thou hast ever shewed to man, By the descending of thy holy soul to hell, By that might and strength of thy blessed soul, whereby thou brakest the gates of hell, and deliveredst the souls of thy friends, For the taking down of thy most holy body from the cross, and the solemn burying thereof; and great lamentation of thy blessed Mother, Mary Magdalene, and others, thy friends,

For all thy painful labours, weariness, sorrow, and heaviness, which thou sufferedst from the day of thy Nativity unto the hour that thy soul departed from thy body, For thy glorious Resurrection in body and soul, For that ineffable joy and gladness of thy blessed Mother, and others, thy friends, in thy glorious Resurrection,

For that special grace, when thou appearedst in a glorious body, after thy Resurrection, to Mary Magdalene, to other women, and to thy disciples, For thy wonderful and glorious Ascension, comfort us, good Lord, in all necessities; and

For thy godly and comfortable sending of the Holy Ghost to thy disciples, comfort us, hallow us, strengthen us in faith, hope, and charity; and

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For thy glory, and the divine majesty and virtues of thy Holy Name, save us and govern us now and ever; and

For the love that rested

both in thy Godhead and manhood,

For that joy whereby thou hast fruition in thyself, For thyself and all goodness and merits that thou beholdest both in thee, and in thy blessed Mother, For the ministering of St. Michael, and my good angel deputed for my keeping, and all other spirits of heaven, By the intercession and merits of SS. Peter and Paul, St. John Evangelist, and all the apostles, By the merits and intercession of thy holy martyrs,

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Free us from guilt's oppressive Father of mercies! hear our cry; load, Hear us, O sole-begotten Son!

And break the deadly bonds of Who, with the Holy Ghost most

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Ne mens gravata crimine,
Vitæ sit exul munere,
Dum nil perenne cogitat,
Seseque culpis illigat.

Cœleste pulset ostium: Vitale tollat præmium: Vitemus omne noxium: Purgemus omne pessimum.

Præsta, Pater piissime,
Patrique compar Unice,
Cum Spiritu Paraclito,
Regnans per omne sæculum.

Amen.

O blest Creator of the light!

ness bring;

Who dost the dawn from dark[height, And framing nature's depth and Didst with the new born light begin;

morn,

Who gently blending eve with
[them day;-
And morn with eve, didst call
Thick flows the flood of darkness
down ;
[pray!

Oh, hear us as we weep and

Keep thou our souls from schemes of crime;

know;

Nor guilt remorseful let them [time, Nor, thinking but on things of Into eternal darkness go.

Teach us to knock at heaven's high door;

Teach us the prize of life to win; Teach us all evil to abhor,

And purify ourselves within.

Father of mercies! hear our cry;
Hear us, O sole begotten Son!
Who, with the Holy Ghost most
high,

Reignest while endless ages run.
Amen.

Hymn for Compline, see p. 517.

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