holy Hands with blunted nails; and in order to drive them through thy most tender Feet, when thou wert not conformable to their will, added to thy Wounds pain upon pain, and so cruelly dragged thee apart, and stretched thee on the length and breadth of the Cross, as to loosen the joints of thy Limbs.
I pray thee, by the memory of thy most sacred and bitter agony on the Cross, to grant me thy fear and love. Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
Prayer III.
O Jesus! heavenly Physician, remember the languor, the bruises, and the agony, which, when raised upon the lofty gibbet of the Cross, thou sufferedst in all thy torn Limbs, not one of which had remained in its own proper state, so that no sorrow was ever found like thy sorrow;[1] for from the sole of the foot to the top of the head there was no soundness [2] in thee; and yet, regardless of all thy pains, thou lovingly prayedst thy Father for thy enemies, in saying: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!
By this mercy, and in remembrance of that agony, grant that this memory of thy most bitter Passion may be the full remission of all my sins, Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
PRAYER IV.
O Jesus! true freedom of Angels, paradise of delights, remember the grief and horror thou enduredst, when all thy enemies stood around thee, like fiercest lions, and tormented thee with buffetings, spittings, scratchings, and all thy other untold pains.
By those pains, and by all the insulting words and most cruel torments with which, O Lord Jesus Christ, all thy enemies afflicted thee, deliver me, I pray thee, from all my visible enemies; and grant me under the shadow of thy wings to attain the completion of my eternal salvation. Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
PRAYER V.
O Jesus! mirror of eternal love, remember the sorrow which thou hadst, when in the mirror of thy most serene majesty thou beheldest the predestination of the Elect, who are saved by the merits of thy Passion; and the reprobation of the wicked, who are to be damned by their own demerits; and the infinite depth of thy mercy, with which thou then condoledst with us lost and desperate sinners, and which thou displayedst to the thief on the cross, in saying, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise; I pray thee, O Jesus, shew
