thy sweet yoke all infidels, heretics, and other enemies of thy holy name.
Our Father, &c. Hail Mary, &c. Glory be to the Father, &c.
LET US PRAY.
O LORD Jesus Christ! God of my heart! by those five wounds, which the love of us inflicted on thee, succor thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Amen.
MOST merciful Redeemer, I humbly beseech thee, by the unspeakable torments, and the immense grief, which thou wast pleased to suffer for me, a contemptible creature, especially when thy divine soul was bitterly separated from thy blessed body, that thou wilt secure my poor soul at the final separation, and comfort me then, as thou didst the good thief saying to me: this day thou shalt be with me in Paradise. Amen.
Let us have recourse to the ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, beseeching her to protect us under the shadow of her wings, until the wrath of God be appeased; and to obtain for us true contrition, and perseverance in the holy grace of her blessed Son. We will also petition for what each one, here present, stands in need of, according to his spiritual or temporal necessities, to the greater glory of God. To merit these favors, we will pray in union with that more than seraphic love, wherewith the dolorous Mother stood under the cross of the bleeding Jesus.
Stabat Mater Dolorosa.
BENEATH the world's redeeming wood
The most afflicted Mother stood,
Mingling her tears with her Son's blood.
As that flowed down from ev'ry part,
Of all his wounds she felt the smart,
What pierced his body pierced her heart.
