Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
PRAYER XV.
O Jesus! the true and fruitful Vino, remember the overflowing and abundant shedding of thy Blood, which thou pouredst out as plentifully as though it were pressed out of a cluster of grapes, when upon the Cross thou troddest the wine-press alone, and from thy side, pierced by the soldier’s lance, gavest us to drink Blood and Water, so that there remained in thee not the least drop, and wert at last suspended on high like a bundle of myrrh, and thy delicate flesh shrunk away, and the moisture of thy bowels was dried up, and the marrow of thy bones was wasted away.
By this most bitter Passion, and outpouring of thy most precious Blood, O loving Jesus, I pray thee, receive my soul in the agony of death. Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
CONCLUSION.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God! in that surpassing love, in which thou enduredst all the wounds of thy most holy Body, receive this prayer, and have mercy on me thy servant, and on all sinners; and to all the faithful, both living and dead, give mercy, grace, remission of sins, and eternal life. Amen.
PRAYER ON THE SEVERAL POINTS OF THE PASSION.
O God, who for the redemption of the world wert willing to be born, circumcised, rejected by the Jews, betrayed by the traitor Judas with a kiss, bound in chains, led as an innocent lamb to the sacrifice, and shamefully exposed before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod, accused by false witnesses, tormented with scourging and insult, spit upon, crowned with thorns, buffeted, struck with a reed, blindfolded, stripped of thy garments, fastened to a Cross with nails, lifted up on a Cross, reckoned among robbers, given gall and vinegar to drink, and wounded with a lance! By these thy most holy sufferings, O Lord, which I unworthily commemorate, and by thy holy Cross and Death, deliver me from the pains of hell, and vouchsafe to conduct me whither thou hast conducted the thief that was crucified with thee. Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reiguest for ever and ever. Amen.
A MOST DEVOUT PRAYER BEFORE THE CROSS OF OUR LORD.
Most good and gracious Christ Jesus, behold, I have recourse to thee; to thee, O loving Jesus, I return; but I blush with the deepest shame and confusion when I look
