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Devotions for Mass.

sion: and grant that we may die with Him to our sins, rise with Him to newness of life, and ascend with Him to Thee. Let those Saints whose memory we celebrate on earth remember us before Thy throne in Heaven, and obtain mercy for us. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

At the Orate, fratres.

MAY the Lord receive the Sacrifice from thy hands, to the praise and glory of His name, to our benefit, and to that of all His holy Church.

At the Secreta.

MERCIFULLY hear our prayers, O Lord, and graciously accept this oblation which we Thy servants make unto Thee; and as we offer it to the honor of Thy name, so may it be to us a means of obtaining Thy grace here and life everlasting hereafter. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

(Or, on a Saint's Day.)

SANCTIFY, O Lord, we beseech Thee, these gifts which we offer Thee in this solemnity of Thy holy servant N., and so strengthen us by Thy grace that both in prosperity and adversity our ways may be ever directed to Thine honor. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

At the Sursum Corda.

V. Lift up your hearts.

R. We lift them up unto the Lord.

V. Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God.

R. It is worthy and just.