embittered for us by thy most bitter death. Amen.
LOVING AFFECTIONS TO JESUS BLASPHEMED IN HIS PASSION.
When St. Gertrude heard, in the Gospel of the Mass, the words: Thou hast a devil; she was unutterably distressed at so blasphemous a reproach and addressed to our Lord the following prayer. While she was repeating it with most tender affection our Lord appeared to draw near to her and to greet her, saying: Whoever shall salute me with the like affection in reparation for the blasphemies heaped upon me, in the dreadful day of judgment I will show him such tender affection in return, that all his adversaries shall be amazed and flee away.
HAIL, life-giving Germ of divine Majesty! hail, unfading Flower of human dignity! O most loving Jesus, for all the blasphemies and contumely with which thou wast assailed on earth, I salute and bless thee with all the affection and love of the whole creation. For every drop of thy Precious Blood shed in thy Passion, for every Wound thou didst bear in thy sacred Body, for every blow and stripe and bruise, I salute and bless thee ten thousand fold. For every tear thou didst shed, for every sigh thou didst breathe forth, for every sorrow thou didst feel, I bless and salute thee, O my sweetest Jesus, ten thousand fold. For every act of virtue thou didst do, for every thirsting desire
