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Devotions for Mass.

souls to eternal life. Live, Jesus, in us, and may we live in Thee. Amen.

After the Elevation.

AND now, O Lord, with grateful hearts we call to mind the sacred Mysteries of Thy Passion and Death, of Thy Resurrection and Ascension. Here is Thy Body that was delivered; here is Thy Blood that was shed for us; of which these exterior signs are but the figures and yet in reality contain the Substance. Now we truly offer Thee, O Lord, that pure and holy Victim which Thou hast been pleased to give us; of which all the other sacrifices were but so many types and figures.

At the Memento for the Dead.

I OFFER Thee, O Almighty Father, this holy Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Thine Only Son, in behalf of the Faithful Departed, and in particular for the souls of N.N. [here name whom you chiefly propose to pray for]. Likewise of such as I have in any way injured, or of whose sins I have by any means been the cause or occasion; of such as have injured me, and been my enemies; of such as die in war, or have none to pray for them. To these, O Lord, and to all that rest in Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, a place of refreshment, of light, and of peace. Through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.

At the Nobis quoque Peccatoribus, when the Priest strikes his breast.

VOUCHSAFE to grant the same to us also, poor and miserable sinners; judge us not according to our demerits, but through the infinite multitude of