please Thee. Thou knowest my wish to love Thee at any cost; do not abandon me. If I have hitherto offended Thee I now feel more pain at the offences I have offered to Thee than if I lost all things, property, relatives, and life. Thou hast died for me, to Thee I consign my soul, into Thy hands I recommend it. In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum. Thou lovest me, and therefore I abandon myself entirely into Thy hands, and hope never to see myself confounded, and in enmity with Thee. " In Thee, Lord, have I hoped; let me never be confounded." My Jesus, I wish always to love Thee. This I repeat, and hope to repeat during life, at death, and for all eternity. My Jesus I love Thee, and wish always to love Thee. Mary, my hope, Mother of mercy, assist me, have pity on me.
A PRAYER TO OUR HOLY PATRON OF BAPTISM.
Glorious St. N. ! whose name I have the honor to bear, who wast given in baptism as a protector and pattern, and who, although secure of thy own immortal bliss, art nevertheless solicitous about my happiness; assist me by thy powerful intercession, as thou instructest me by the examples of thy holy life. For I truly can behold in thy life, as in a bright
