your love, who proceedeth from you, ye have given us yourselves. We thank thee, O Holy Ghost, who art at once the gift and the giver of all gifts, and we most earnestly beseech thee to give us thyself. No other gift but thine own self can satisfy our souls, and having thee alone, we shall have all things. But what can we give thee in exchange for so great benefits? O blessed Spirit, vouchsafe of thy mercy to accept for all eternity all our thoughts, all our affections, and all ourselves. Amen.
Come, O Holy Ghost, &c.
V. and R. Send forth, etc.
Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that we may burn with that fire of the Holy Ghost which our Lord Jesus Christ sent upon the earth, and which he desired to be vehemently enkindled; through our Lord Jesus Christ. In the unity of the same. Amen.
May the blessing, etc.
NINTH DAY. — TRANSFIGURATION AND ASCENSION OF OUR LORD, AND THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE HOLY GHOST.
LET us prostrate ourselves before the majesty of the most Holy Trinity, and, uniting our dispositions with those of our Blessed Lady and the holy Apostles in the upper room at Jerusalem, let us say one Our Father and one Hail Mary, in honour of the transfiguration and ascension of our most dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the ineffable love of the Holy Ghost in all his manifestations to his creatures. Our Father, Hail Mary.
Most holy Virgin and exalted Mother of God, who wast above all other creatures disposed to receive the Holy Ghost, and who didst receive him with
