like to be found at the hour of your death. We ought, said a great saint, to ask of God, through Jesus Christ, the grace to repair all the spiritual losses we have sustained through our negligence. We should beseech Him, in the name and through the merits of this divine Saviour, to enable us to attain that degree of perfection to which He wished to conduct us, if we had corresponded with fidelity. This practice suits particularly the end of the year.
In thanksgiving to almighty God, for the spiritual and temporal blessings bestowed on you, on your parents, on all mankind, during the past year, recite with lively sentiments of gratitude the Te Deum or Magnificat.
And in expiation of your infidelities, recite the Miserere.
AN OFFERING OF THE NEW YEAR.
O MY God! another year is added to the number of those for which I am accountable to Thee. Well may I recount them all in the bitterness of my soul, for they have been filled with infidelities and ingratitude. Thou hast granted them to me to know, to love, and serve Thee, and every one of them brings to my recollection numberless omissions of these essential duties. Have mercy on me, O Lord, have mercy on me, for I have no hope but in Thy mercy. It now offers me this new year to repair the evils and retrieve the losses of those which are past. Grant, O Lord, that it be entirely consecrated to Thy glory, sanctified by Thy love, and wholly employed in Thy service.
A PRAYER TO THE ADORABLE NAME OF JESUS.
{[di|O}} MOST sweet Jesus, how glorious is that name which is given to Thee this day! I rejoice that it is not borne by Thee a mere empty name, the shadow of a name, as others have borne it; but a name full of truth, and of all perfection.
I thank Thee, O good Jesus, for the will which Thou hadst to save us, accepting the office, with the name, of Saviour; fulfil it, O Lord, effectually in me; and seeing Thou art Jesus, Esto mihi Jesus. Be to me Jesus, be my Saviour. Amen.
O blessed Virgin, beseech thy Son to imprint in my heart that esteem and love of this holy name, which He imprinted in thine.
May the adorable name of Jesus be the sweet and daily
