the Garden of Olives; and insurmountable Thy anguish, when expiring with love, grief, and agony, on Mount Calvary, in Thy last breath, Thou wouldst reclaim sinners to their duty and repentance. This we know, O dear Redeemer! and would most willingly redress these Thy sufferings by our own, or share with Thee in Thine.
O merciful Jesus! ever present on our altars, and with a heart open to receive all who labor and are burdened! O adorable Heart of Jesus, source of true contrition! impart to our hearts the true spirit of penance, and to our eyes a fountain of tears, that we may bewail and wash off our sins and those of the world. Pardon, divine Jesus! all the injuries, reproaches, and outrages, done Thee, through the course of Thy holy life and bitter passion. Pardon all the impieties, and irreverences, and sacrileges,
