to redress our evils, the real victim of love in the Holy Eucharist, and propitiatory sacrifice for sin on the altar of the cross! seeing that the generality of Christians make no other return for these Thy mercies, than contempt of Thy favors, forgetfulness of their own obligation, and ingratitude to the best of benefactors, is it not just that we Thy servants, penetrated with the deepest sense of the like indignities, should enter upon a due and satisfactory reparation of honor to Thy most sacred Majesty? Prostrate therefore, in body, and humbled in mind before heaven and earth, we solemnly declare our utter detestation and abhorrence of such conduct. Inexpressible, we know, was the bitterness which the multitude of our sins brought on Thy tender heart; insufferable the weight of our iniquities, which pressed Thy face to the earth in
