The Prayer.
O GLORIOUS Queen of all the heavenly citizens, we beseech thee to accept this Rosary, which as a crown of roses we offer at thy feet; and grant, most gracious Lady, that by thy intercession our souls may be inflamed with so ardent a desire of seeing thee so gloriously crowned, that it may never die in us until it be changed into the happy fruition of thy blessed sight. Amen.
Hail, Holy Queen, etc., with the verse and prayer, as before, p. 448.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY VIRGIN,
Mother of Sorrows.
MOST holy Mother of Sorrows, by that intense martyrdom which thou didst suffer at the foot of the cross during the three hours of the agony of Jesus, deign to aid us all, who are the children of thy sorrows, in our last agony, that by thy prayers we may pass from our bed of death to ad >m thy crown in Paradise.
Glory be to the Father, etc. [three times].
V. From sudden and unprovided death.
R. Deliver us, O Lord.
V. From the snares of the devil.
R. Deliver us, O Lord.
V. From everlasting death.
R. Deliver us, O Lord.
LET US PRAY
O GOD, who, for the salvation of the human race, hast, in the most bitter death of thy Son, made for us both an example and a refuge, grant, we beseech thee, that in the last peril, at the hour of
