danger of losing my God. Take pity on me, and help me, and beg of Jesus to pardon all the faults of which I have hitherto been guilty. Beg of Him to deliver me from all attachment to the things of this world, which might prevent my loving Him, with thee, one day in paradise.
MONDAY.
Consecrated to the Holy Ghost,[1] and to the Commemoration of the Dead.
Prayers during the Mass
For the Souls in Purgatory.
From the Commencement to the Epistle.
Heavenly Father, prostrate before the throne of Thine infinite majesty, I offer Thee this sacrifice of the true Body and Blood of Thine only Son for the poor souls in purgatory; I unite it to all the pains and sufferings which He underwent in His passion for our salvation. And Thou, beloved Saviour of our souls, remember what Thou didst suffer for us in the Garden of Olives; there, at the sight of all the anguish and the ignominious death on the cross that did await Thee, at the sight of the sins and monstrous ingratitude shown by men, above all at the sight of so many souls plunging themselves into hell by their own malice, without seeking to profit by the fruit of Thy passion, Thou didst deign, through an excess of love, to suffer such anguish, fear, and sadness that Thou didst fall into mortal agony, and didst sweat blood till it ran down to the very earth. I humbly beg Thee to offer these sufferings to the justice of Thine eternal Father, in union with the sacrifice of Thy
- ↑ See Devotions to the Holy Ghost, Part IV., Section. 3.
