such a zeal for thy worship and honour, that I may love thee with my whole heart, and entirely bless and sanctify thy Name in all my works; think of thee alone, desire thee alone, wish to please, and fear to displease, thee alone, and cheerfully and joyfully devote the whole of my life to thy glory. Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
Accept, most merciful Father, this my oblation to the most sacred Wounds of thy Son Jesus Christ, these most divine medicines of our salvation and monuments of thy love; and out of them bestow upon me such grace, that, living and dying under their protection and defence, I may find safe and certain refuge; until I merit to contemplate them, and praise thee for them, together with all the Blessed, in the glory of thy Majesty for ever. Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
DEVOUT SALUTATIONS TO OUR SAVIOUR’S WOUNDS.
I.
Hail, wound blessed above all, of the Right Hand of my crucified Lord Jesus Christ, dropping with rosy Blood for my own and all men’s salvation! Protect me, O Lord, and save me with thy right hand; strike with it my hellish enemy, lest at any time he say, I have prevailed against him whom thou hast redeemed with thy Blood. Let thy right hand conduct me wonderfully, that all my thoughts, words, and works may ever tend and be directed straight to thee, as to my object and end. Grant me to carry my lamp ever burning, trimmed with the oil of charity, that I may be held worthy to be admitted with thee to the heavenly marriage; that when thou comest to judge the world, I may be set at thy right hand, and merit to hear with thy Elect: Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! Amen. Our Father. Hail Mary.
II.
Hail, beatific wound of the Left Hand of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, empurpled with his most precious Blood! With thy mighty hand and outstretched arm, O Lord, bring to nought whatever sinister, perverse, and unjust designs they contrive who devise evil against me. Repress the power of my enemies, who seek my life. Defend me, and be present with me in all my troubles and adversities; and deliver me most mercifully from all evils, past, present, and to come. Save me out of the hand of my persecutors, and from them that hate me without cause. Say to my soul: I am thy salvation. Let them perish that make haste to destroy me, that, being de-
