watch, to teach the ignorant, and to heal the diseased; in thy whole life to suffer continual afflictions and persecutions; and at length voluntarily to suffer death upon the cross; and all this for me, and such wretched creatures as myself.
2. O good and gracious Jesus ! who, having eaten the paschal lamb with thy dearly beloved disciples, didst arise from supper, gird thyself with a towel, pour water into a basin, and on bended knees didst humbly wash the feet of thy disciples, and wipe them with thy own hands.
3. O good and gracious Jesus! who, when the time of thy death approached, didst bequeath a most excellent legacy to thy children, leaving us thy most sacred body to be our meat, and thy most precious blood to be our drink: no wit can teach, no understanding penetrate the bottomless depth of this thy charity.
4. O good and gracious Jesus ! who, having entered into the garden of Olives, didst begin to fear and to be sad; whereupon thou saidst to thy disciples, My soul is sorrowful, even unto death; and then leaving them, didst kneel upon the ground, and falling flat on thy face, didst pray to thy Father, If it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. And yet with perfect submission, wholly resignest thyself to him, saying, Father, not my will, but thine he done: and at length, through most painful agony, thy afflicted and fainting body sweated drops of blood.
5. O good and gracious Jesus! who, inflamed with an ineffable desire to redeem me, didst go to meet thine enemies, and didst suffer Judas the traitor to kiss thee, and thyself to be taken and bound with cords, and as a malefactor disgracefully led by the basest of the people to Annas, where with admirable meekness
