A METHOD OF REPEATING THE LORD’S PRAYER TO GOD THE FATHER,
That our sins and failings may be atoned for by the virtues and merits of his Son.
Our Father.
O most holy Father! by that immeasurable love by which thou hast granted to us to be called and to be the sons of God, from the bottom of my heart I beseech thee mercifully to pardon my neglect hitherto to render thee the honour and filial love which I owe to my most loving Father; instead of which I have often and deeply offended thee by my sins, and by my sins have very often driven thee shamefully out of my heart, in which it was thy right to dwell, as thou dwellest in heaven, thy throne.
O most merciful Father! look upon the face of Christ thy Son, and have mercy upon me. I beseech thee, in union with that infinite love with which thou hast from all eternity begotten thy Son to be coequal with thee, and hast willed him at the predestined time to become man for us; I beseech thee, by the power of that most ample satisfaction, which the same thy most beloved Son and our sinless brother Jesus Christ has made to thee for me, graciously to accept in atonement for all my sins and failings, the most ardent love of that divine heart, together with that most appropriate praise and honour which, with the greatest humility, he rendered to thee.
1. Hallowed be thy name.
O most tender Father! with all the affection of my heart, I entreat thee not to punish me because I have not hallowed thy most holy name with its rightful religious worship, honour, and reverence; nay, have often treated it with contumely, and have many times so shamefully disgraced, by my unworthy conduct, the Christian name which, by thy grace, I bear.
O Father most high! vouchsafe, I beseech thee, to accept, in atonement for all my faults, the perfect holiness of life of thy most dear Son; in which, for the three and thirty years and upwards that he lived upon earth, he never ceased to glorify thy blessed name, and to praise and sanctify it by so many signs and miracles, words and works.
2. Thy kingdom come.
O Father of mercies! I beseech thee most mercifully to forgive me for having never, with becoming ardour and
