1 2 atural nits - Lives to 74: 4 Thy great Mercy, from Thee. Amen. FATHER, my Redeemer, fulness of all that my my Sanctifier. O my heart longeth after. LORD, increase, purify, and sustain this my faith even to the end. Amen. ACT OF HOPE. TRUST, O my God, my soul and my body, and all that is in me, or that is mine, and all that is to come, to Thy care. Thou hast bid me to rest in quietness and in confidence, because Thou art my GOD, and Thy promises never fail. LORD, by Thy SPIRIT breathe into my soul this grace of undying, restful hope, I beseech Thee. Amen. ACT OF LOVE. THOU, O LORD GOD, art Love, and whoso dwelleth in love, dwelleth in Thee, and Thou in him. I love Thee, O GOD, because Thy Goodness and Thy Mercy towards me cease not, and because Thou art GOD, my own GOD, the would love Thee more and more; only make my love more pure, more constant, more worthy of Thee. Amen. ACT OF INTERCESSION. IN union with the unceasing intercession of my LORD, and with the intercessions of His Blessed Mother, and of all the Saints, which through Him are ever offered acceptably, I unite am thus to offer; and commy own, unworthy as I mend to Thee, O GOD Almighty, Everlasting, all who are near and dear to me, - all who are one with me in Religion, ——; all who desire or need my prayers,all whom I desire to remember, -; most humbly beseeching that Thy blessings temporal and spiritual may be vouchsafed to them, according to their necessities; and according to the measure GOOD JESUS, inexhaustible Fountain of Love, standing, keep my soul now, and in the hour of my death, and in the Day of Judgment. Amen. OUR FATHER. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, &c. Hide me in Thy Love, COMMEMORATION OF THE Fill me with Thy Love, Keep me still in Thy Love, That I may desire nothing but Thy Love, And may nothing in me this day displease Thy Love. Amen. ANIMA CHRISTI. THE Soul of CHRIST And His Blood ransom me, And the Water from And His Sweat refresh me, And His Wounds hide me, And the Peace of GOD, which passeth all under INCARNATION. I. The Angel of the LORD announced unto Mary, and she conceived of the HOLY GHOST. II. Behold the Handmaid of the LORD; be it done unto me according to thy word. III. And the WORD was made Flesh, and dwelt among us. THE COLLECT. WE beseech Thee, O LORD, pour Thy Grace into our hearts ; that, as we have known the Incarnation of Thy SON, JESUS CHRIST, by the message of an Angel, so by His Cross and Passion we may be brought unto the glory of His Resurrection; through the same JESUS CHRIST day, and one or both our LORD. Amen. Lessons, are suggested The Psalms for the for reading. HYMNS. "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Which was, and is, and is to come.' EVERLASTING praises FATHER be! Everlasting praises To the SAVIOUR be! Everlasting praises To the Blessed TRINITY! Everlasting praises For the FATHER'S LOVE! Everlasting praises For the SAVIOUR'S LOVE! Everlasting praises For the SPIRIT'S Love! Everlasting praises To the Three-One GOD of Love! Amen. "Not my will, but Thine, be done." LORD, I had planned to do Thee service true, More faithful in obedience to Thy Word, I thought of sad hearts comforted and healed, Of time all consecrated to Thy Will, Of strength spent gladly for Thee day by day, Thy blessed Hand came forth, and laid me down, And was it loss to have indulged such hopes? Nay, they were gifts from out the Inner Shrine, Garlands, that I might hang about Thy Cross, Gems to surrender at the Call Divine. As chiselled image unresisting lies, In niche by its own sculptor's hand designed, If works of Faith, and labours sweet of Love, Thou art our Pattern to the end of time, |