Our Father, &c. Hail Mary, &c. Glory be to the Father, &c.
O holy Mother! impress deeply on my heart the Wounds of my crucified Jesus.
A PRAYER TO THE MOTHER OF SORROWS.
O MARY, Virgin Mother of God ! martyr of love and sorrow, at the sight of the sufferings and humiliations of Jesus! Thou hast concurred in the work of my redemption, by thy innumerable afflictions; especially by the offering thou didst make to the eternal Father of this only Son, as a holocaust and a victim of propitiation for my sins. I feelingly compassionate thy most bitter sorrow. I thank thee for the almost infinite love with which, to save us miserable sinners, thou didst consent to be deprived of thy Son Jesus, true God and true Man. O holy Virgin, Mother of God! no one has ever implored thy powerful intercession in vain; use, then, thy influence with the Father and the Son, that breaking now, and for ever, the chain of my bad habits and perverse inclinations, I may never, by any new sin, again crucify my Jesus, but that I may persevere in his grace until death, and obtain eternal life through the merits he acquired for me by his bitter passion and death upon the cross.
Hail Mary, &c., three times.
PRAYER.
O JESUS, my Lord and my God! who didst, about the sixth hour, vouchsafe to be nailed to the cross, for the redemption of the world, and on it to shed thy precious blood for the remission of our sins, we humbly supplicate thee to grant, that, after our death, we may be admitted into the mansions of the blessed; there to adore, love, praise and enjoy thee for ever.
