prayers, and grant me that for which I now most humbly and heartily petition Thee.
[Mention here the thing you desire; or reflect mentally upon it. ]
GIVE me, O gracious Saviour, speedy and efficacious feelings of Thy divine succor and comfort, who according to the accustomed sweetness of Thy tender heart, art wont to grant the requests of those who really fear and love Thee, even to their own souls' desire and satisfaction; bestow on me, also, O my blessed Lord Jesus, a constant faith, a confident hope, a perfect charity, a cordial contrition, a sincere confession, a competent satisfaction, a diligent custody of myself from future failings, a heroic contempt of the world, a complete conquest of my passions, a zealous imitation of Thy exem-