prostrate myself at your feet. O most compassionate Father, do not, I beseech you, reject my poor and miserable prayers, but graciously hear and answer my petition. Amen.
4. One Hail Mary, to obtain grace to profit by the Conference.
5. The notices and recommendations, followed , if necessary , by some prayers for the absent, the sick, and the deceased members.
6. The Conference or Instruction.
(The subjects of these Conferences are : Religion, considered in its history, its doctrines, its moral teaching, and its worship ; the life and virtues of our Saviour ; the lives and examples of the B.V. Mary and the Saints, &c.)
7. The Examination of Conscience.
Let us examine our consciences, that we may see the faults we have committed this day, and let us ask pardon for them from God with our whole hearts .
8. The Spiritual Communion .
Come, Lord Jesus, I love thee, I desire thee ; come into my heart. I attach myself, I unite myself to thee. Let me never more be separated from thee. ( St. Alphonsus.)
9. Invocation of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, to be said aloud by all together .
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul,
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe out my soul in peace with you.
(Indulgence of 300 days, applicable to the souls in purgatory. Pius VII., 1807.)
10. Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament.
11. The Angelus.
12. A Hymn.
If there cannot be Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, a few verses of a hymn may be sung, after which the Director gives the Benediction with the Crucifix, while he chants ...
