CHAPTER XXV.
PRAYERS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD.
I.
O Jesus Christ, eternal sweetness of them that hope in thee, joy exceeding all joy and all desire, salvation, and love of sinners, who hast declared it to be thy delight to be with the children of men, made man for man in the end of time; remember all thy premeditation and interior grief, which thou didst endure in thy human body, at the approach of the time of thy most saving Passion, preordained in thy divine heart. Remember the sadness and the bitterness, which as thou thyself didst testify, thou didst feel in thy soul, when at the Last Supper with thy disciples thou didst give them thy Body and Blood, didst wash their feet, and sweetly consoling them, foretell thy imminent Passion. Remember all the fear, anguish, and grief, which thou didst endure in thy delicate body before the Passion of the Cross; when, after thy thrice-repeated prayer and bloody sweat, thou wast betrayed by thy disciple Judas, taken by a chosen people, ac-
