Other Prayers for Particular Purposes.
PRAYER FOR TEMPERANCE.
MY Lord Jesus Christ, who for love of us didst suffer the agony of thirst upon the Cross, grant we beseech thee, through the merits of thy sacred passion and death, that we may subdue our sinful desires, and may never have the misfortune to commit the sin of drunkenness. This most grievous sin has cast innumerable souls into hell. It brings in its train innumerable other sins. It closes the heart against sanctifying grace, gives loose reins to the vilest passions, destroys Christian peace in families, leads to fighting and quarrelling, to cursing and swearing, to improper and sinful words. O God! through thy own great mercy, preserve us from the sin of drunkenness, and through thy love for all the Saints of Ireland, banish this terrible vice entirely from amongst us.
Say, from your heart, one “Hall Mary,” to obtain the blessing of Temperance, and add:
O sacred Heart of Jesus, through thy thirst and agony on the Cross, have mercy on us.
Immaculate Mary, through thy compassionate heart, obtain for me the blessing of Temperance.
FOR THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH.
DEFEND, O Lord, thy servants, we beseech thee, from all dangers both of body and soul; and, by the intercession of the blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, of blessed N., and of all thy saints, mercifully grant us the blessings of peace and safety; that
