By Thy profound Humiliation;
By Thy ready Obedience;

By Thine infinite Love;
By Thy Anguish and Sorrow;
By Thy Sweat of Blood;
By Thy Bonds;

By Thy Scourging;

By Thy Crown of Thorns;
By Thy Cross-Bearing;
By Thy most cruel death;

By Thy Five most sacred Wounds;
By Thy Cross and Passion;
By Thy glorious Resurrection;
By Thine admirable Ascension;
By the descent of the Comforter;
In the day of Judgment;

and

We sinners beseech Thee to hear us;
Thou Who savest freely Thine elect;
Thou Who hast the keys of death and of hell;
Thou Who art the victor over the grave
conqueror over hell;
That it may please Thee shortly to accomplish.
the number of Thine elect, and to hasten
Thy kingdom;

That it may please Thee to give rest to the
souls of the faithful departed;

That it may please Thee to let perpetual light shine upon them;

We beseech Thee to hear us

Good Lord, deliver them.

That it may please Thee to bring them and us to a joyful Resurrection;

That it may please Thee to wash away their stains in Thy most precious blood;

That it may please Thee to clothe them in white robes;

That it may please Thee to place them in green pastures;

That it may please Thee to refresh them with the waters of life;

That it may please Thee to give them to taste of the tree of life;

That it may please Thee to turn on them the beauty of Thy countenance;

That it may please Thee to wipe away all tears from their eyes;

That it may please Thee to rejoice their hearts with Thy love;

That it may please Thee to make them sit down at Thy table in Thy kingdom;

That it may please Thee to feed them with the hidden manna;

King of awful majesty ;

Son of God.

We beseech Thee to hear us,

V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world;

R. Grant unto them rest.

V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world;

R. May their rest be sweet.

V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world;

R. Let perpetual light shine upon them.
V. O Christ, hear us.

R. Christ graciously hear us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

V. From the gates of hell.
R. Deliver their souls, O Lord.
V. O Lord, hear our prayer.

R. And let our cry come unto Thee.

Let us pray.

LORD, with Whom do live the spirits of them

that depart hence in the Lord; with Whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; grant unto Thy servants [N.] that the sins which they committed in this world be not imputed unto them; but that they escaping the gates of hell, and pains of eternal darkness, may ever dwell in the region of light, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness; and when that dreadful day of the general Resurrection shall come, make them also to rise with the just and righteous, and receive their

bodies again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible: set them on the Right Hand of Thy Son Jesus Christ, among Thy holy and elect, that then they may hear those most sweet and comfortable words: "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world." Grant this, we beseech Thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.

L

18. Litany of a Happy Death.

(May be said on Saturday.)

ORD Jesus, God of goodness, Fountain of mercy, I stand before Thee, with a humbled and contrite heart; to Thee I commend my last hour, and all that awaits me after it. Amen. When my feet, benumbed with death, shall

warn me that my course is well-nigh run, When my hands, cold and trembling, shall fall upon my bed,

When my eyes, dim with the mist of approaching death, shall fix on Thee their languid look,

Merciful Jesus, have

pity upon me.

When my lips, cold and quivering, shall pronounce for the last time Thy most adorable Name,

When my cheeks, pale and ghastly, shall inspire the bystanders with pity and awe, and my hair bathed in the sweat of death, shall forebode my approaching end,

When my ears, about to be for ever shut to the discourse of men, shall be opened to hear Thy voice pronouncing irrevocably the sentence by which my condition is to be fixed for all eternity,

When my imagination, disturbed with gloomy phantoms, shall fill my heart with woe, and my soul, terrified at the sight of my iniquities and the fear of Thy justice, shall wrestle with the powers of darkness, striving to cast me headlong into the pit of despair, When my weak heart, overwhelmed with the pain of my disease, shall be seized with the agonies of death, and violently assailed by the efforts of Satan,

When the last tear, sign of my dissolution, shall fall from my eyelids; then in that dread moment,

When relatives and friends stand weeping around me, and shed tears at my approaching dissolution, and invoke Thee in my behalf,

Merciful Jesus, have pity upon me,