My dearest Jesus,
I have told all my sins to the best of my ability.
I have sincerey tried to make a good confession and I know that You have forgiven me. Thank You dear Jesus!
Your Divine HEart is full of love and mercy for poor sinners.
I love You dear Jesus;
You are sogood to me.
My loving Savior, I shall try to keep from sin and to love more each day.
Dearest Mother Mary, pray for me and help me to keep all my promises.
Protect me and do not let me fall back into sin.
Dear God, help me to lead a good life.
Without Your grace I can do nothing. Amen.
42. PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX
Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Your face I humbly kneel ad, with burning soul, pray and beseech You to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity; true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment.
While I contemplate, with great love and tender pity, Your five most precious wounds, pondering over them within me and calling to mind the words which David, Your prophet, said of You, my Jesus:
"They have pierced My hands and My feet, they have numbered all My bones. Amen.
43. PRAYER OF FAITH
Lord, I believe in Thee.
Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved, and let it penetrate my thought, my way of judging divine things and human things.
Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it for prayer with God and conversio with people, so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation.
Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume to be based on the experience of my thought and of my feeling; but let it surrender to the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and not have any better guarantee than in docility to Tradition and to the authority of the the Magisterium of the Holy Church. Amen.
44. PRAYER TO ST. MICHAEL
St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do you, O Prince of the heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.
45. AN EVENING VISIT
Be with us Lord tonight. Stay to adore and praise, and give thanks for us whie we sleep; to draw down mercy and grace upon the world; to give strength to the suffering souls in purgatory in their night of waiting.
Stay with us, to ward off the anger f God from our crowded cities with their dens of vice, their crimes that call to Heaven for vengeance.
Stay with us, to guard the innocent, to sustain the tempted, to raise the fallen, to curb the power of the evil one, to prevent sin.
Stay with us, to comfort the sorrowing, to bless the death-beds, to grant contrition to the dying, to receive into the arms of Your mercy the thousands that this night must come before with Tour sheep.
Secure them against the perils that beset them. Stay, above all, with the suffering and dying. Grant us a quite night and a perfect end. Be our merciful Shepherd to the last, that without fear we may appear before You as our Judge.
46. EVENING PRAYER
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your Angels and Saints charge over those who sleep.
Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Rest Your ones,
Bless Your dying ones,
Soothe Your suffering ones,
Pity Your afflicted ones,
Shield Your joyous ones,
And all for Your love's sake. Amen.
47. THE DIVINE PRAISES
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the Great Mother of God, Mary Most holy.
Blessed her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints.
May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.
48. PRAYER BEFORE COMMUNION
Come, O Blessed Savior, and nourish my soul with heavenly Food, the Food which contains every sweetness and every delight. Come, Bread of angels, and satisfy the hunger of my soul.
Come, glowing Furnace of Charity, and enindle in my heart the flame of divine love.
Come, Light of the World, and enlighten the darkness of my mind.
Come, King of Kings, and make me obedient to your holy will.
Come, Loving Savior, and make me meek and humble.
Come, Friend of the Sick, and heal the infirmities of my body and the weaness of my soul.
Come, Good shepherd, my God and my All, and take e to yourself.
O most holy Mother, Mary Immaculate, prepare my heart to receive my Savior.
49. PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
50. FATHER OF MERCIES
Dear Lord, help me to remove from my mind every thought or opinion which You would not sanction, every feeling from my heart which You would not approve.
Grant that I may spend the hours of the day galdly working with You according to Your will.
Helpme just for today and be with me in it.
In moments of fatigue and illness, that I may be mindful of others rather tha of myself. n temptations, that I may be generous and loyal, so that when the day is over I may lay it at Your feet, with its successes which are all Yours,and its failures which are all my own, and feel that life is real and peaceful, and blessed when spent with You as the Guest of my soul. Amen.
Father of mercies, God of all comfort, herar our prayers for the souls of the faithful departed. Console them in their sorrowful exile from the kingdom prepared for them from the creation of the world. We make our prayer for them through Jesus Christ, Your Son, who loved them and delivered Himself up for all of us. Amen.
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