PASSAGES OF HOLY : Praise the LORD, O my soul and all that is within me praise His holy Name. : Praise the LORD, O my soul and forget not all His benefits; Who forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thine infirmities; : Who saveth thy life from destruction: and crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindness. The LORD is full of compassion and mercy : long suffering, and of great goodness. He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth He His anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins: nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth : so great is His mercy also toward them that fear Him. the east is from the west: so far hath He set our sins from us. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear Him. For He knoweth whereof we are made: He remembereth that we are but dust. O praise the LORD, ye Angels of His, ye that excel in strength: ye that fulfil His commandment, and hearken unto the voice of His words. O praise the LORD, all ye His Hosts: ye servants of His that do His pleasure. O speak good of the LORD, all ye works of His, in all places of His dominion: praise thou the LORD, O my soul. (Ps. ciii.) LORD, Thou art become gracious unto Thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the Look how wide also offence of Thy people : and covered all their earth: and then all his sins. Thou hast taken away all Thy displeasure: and turned thyself from Thy wrathful indignation. Mercy and truth are met together: righteous ness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousness hath look ed down from heaven. Yea, the LORD shall show loving-kindness: and our land shall give her increase. shall Righteousness go before Him and He shall direct His going in the way. (Ps. lxxxv.) Praise the LORD, O my soul: while I live will I praise the LORD, yea as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my GOD. O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man for there is no help in them. : For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his thoughts perish. Blessed is he that hath the GOD of Jacob for his help: and whose hope is in the LORD his GOD; Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: Who keepeth His promise for ever; Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong: Who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison: the LORD giveth sight to the blind. The LORD helpeth them that are fallen : the LORD careth for the righteous. The LORD careth for the strangers; He defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, He turneth it upside down. The LORD thy GOD, O Sion, shall be King for evermore: and throughout all generations. (Ps. cxlvi.) I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own (Isa. sake, and will not re- made nigh by the Blood member thy sins. of CHRIST. For He is xliii.) our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His Flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto GOD in one Body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (Eph. ii.) I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth break forth into singing, ye mountains, Ŏ forest, and every tree therein; for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel. (Isa. xliv.) But now in CHRIST JESUS ye who sometimes were far off are HYMN. "Blessed is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven, and whose sin is covered." DOWN at Thy Feet, O LORD, down at Thy Feet, Here let me rest : Lowly in penitence, upon the ground, My brow hard pressed. Down at Thy Feet, O LORD, and not, not yet, Only to know and feel that I have found Far have I wandered, LORD, have wandered far How is it that the blessed, blessed rest All of Thy Mercy, Thou most merciful- Weep in repentant joy, for Thou hast found When wilt Thou raise me up in pardoning love? For when I see Thy Face, I shall not weep, Then let me rest awhile in grief and shame, Before mine eyes behold the Vision bright, DEVOTIONS FOR HOLY COMMUNION. BEFORE HOLY COMMU NION. Ps. xliii. Judica me GIVE sentence with deliver me from the de- Thee: and why go I so O send out Thy light and Thy truth, that they may lead me: and bring me unto Thy holy hill, and to Thy dwelling. And that I may go unto the altar of GOD, even unto the GOD of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto Thee, O GOD, my GOD, Why art thou so heavy, O my soul: and why art thou so disquieted within me ? of Simon the leper-as Thou didst not reject the woman that was a sinner-so, O blessed LORD JESU, do Thou vouchsafe to accept me, and come to me, unworthy though I am, in the Holy, Immaculate, Lifegiving Mystery, of Thy most blessed Body and Blood. Amen. ANOTHER. O put thy trust in LORD GOD, I am GOD for I will yet give Him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my GOD. Glory be to the FATHER, &c. ACT OF HUMILITY. unclean, unclean, unclean! originally, actually, every way, always. Throughout childhood, youth, riper years, every age-most unworthy to approach this Presence, so pure!-I who am so unholy! LORD, I am not worthy; I am not fit that But I grieve, I mourn, Thou shouldest come I come not worthy, into my soul, for there but needy-That most is no place in me where Holy Body, that most Thou canst lay Thy Head Precious Blood can make -But as Thou didst not me clean-It is my SAdisdain to be laid in the VIOUR! LORD, make me stall and manger of brute worthy in Him-Give beasts-as Thou didst my sins pardon, my soul not despise the house Thy Grace, myself ac |