THREE DEVOUT PRAYERS USEFUL FOR THE DYING
To be recited with three Our Fathers, and three Hail Marys in the agony of death. First is said:
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Our Father, Hail Mary.
Let us Pray
O LORD Jesus Christ, by Thy most sacred agony and by the prayer which Thou didst pour forth for us on the Mount of Olives, where Thy sweat became as drops of blood running down upon the earth, I beseech Thee to offer up the many drops of Thy bloody sweat, which in Thy fearful anguish Thou didst most abundantly shed for us, and graciously to present them to Thy almighty Father, to be set against the many sins of this Thy servant, N., and mercifully deliver him in this hour of his death from all the pains and sufferings which he fears he may justly have deserved for his sins. Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, God, forever and ever. Amen.
A second time is said:
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Our Father, Hail Mary.
O LORD Jesus Christ, Who didst vouchsafe to die upon the cross for us, I beseech Thee to offer up to Thy almighty Father all the bitter pains and sufferings which Thou didst endure for us upon the cross, especially in that hour when
