offering Thee this great sacrifice of the Mass, are rendering Thee all the glory and honor due to Thine infinite majesty. We pray Thee for the deliverance of the souls in purgatory. Receive then this day, O heavenly Father, the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Thy Son, in union with the sufferings He experienced when He was so shamefully reviled by the Jews; for when Pilate, from his judgment-seat, presented Him to the people, crowned with thorns, covered with a tattered scarlet mantle, a reed in His hand, and blood gushing from every wound, saying, "Behold the Man!" the Jews judged Him worthy of death, and preferred Barabbas, a wicked homicide, to Jesus, and cried out, "Not this man, but Barabbas. Crucify Him, Crucify Him!" Jesus, condemned to death, like a gentle lamb, embraced His cross and carried it to Calvary, the place of sacrifice. It was charity on the part of Thy divine Son that made Him humble Himself thus for our salvation; but it is justice on Thy part, accepting this profound humiliation in order to raise us and deliver the souls in purgatory. I pray Thee, then, by the merits of this sacrifice, and by the profound humility which Thy Son practised during His Passion, to grant rest and peace to the souls in purgatory.
Requiem, etc.
From the Communion to the End of the Mass.
O God of love, Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, look down now on this altar whereon the unbloody sacrifice of Thy Son's Body and Blood is representing His most holy Death and grievous Passion. In quality of High Priest He offered it to Thee on Calvary by the effusion of all the blood in His veins, when stretched naked on the cross, He was nailed thereon, and after three hours' agony, amid derision and insult, gall and vinegar being given Him to drink, He yielded His soul into
