Devotions at Mass.
PRAYERS BEFORE MASS.
In the name of the ✝ Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Amen.
Receive, holy Trinity, one God, the holy sacrifice of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which I, Thy unworthy servant, desire now to offer unto Thy divine Majesty by the hands of this Thy-minister, with all the sacrifices which have ever been or are to be offered unto Thee, in union with that most holy sacrifice offered by the same our Lord at the last supper, and on the altar of the cross. I offer it unto Thee with the utmost affection of devotion, out of pure love for thine infinite goodness, and according to the most holy intention of the same our Lord, and of our holy mother Church :
1. To the great and eternal glory and love of Thy divine Majesty.
2. In acknowledgment of Thy sovereign excellence and supreme dominion over us, and our subjection to Thee, and dependence upon Thee.
3. In perpetual commemoration of the passion and death of the same Christ our Lord.
4. For the honor and increase of glory of the blessed Virgin, and of all the saints triumphant.
