to each that kind of death which thou pleasest; grant me, I beseech thee, a death holy and precious in thy sight; and let thy merciful visit to me be the pledge of it, and in thy own good time bring the business of my salvation to a happy conclusion.
PRAYER.
WHEN thou didst enter into Jerusalem, dear Lord, thou shedest tears of compassion over its miseries; show, I beseech thee, the same charity towards me, now that thou hast entered into my heart. My Judge is already within me ! very shortly shall I have to appear before him; I hear his voice calling me: I go, my God, not relying on any merits of my own, but on thy mercy, which I implore through thy own most precious blood. O Father of mercies! I recommend my poor soul into thy hands; if thou regardest the enormity of my offences, I cannot possibly hope to be saved. Thou, my Jesus, art my only resource: let those eyes which never were averted from the sinner, look with pity upon me. Let that mouth which never condemned any one here below, now speak to me words of consolation and of life. May thy holy soul sanctify mine; may thy spirit enlighten mine; may thy sacred heart inflame mine with that love which thou testifiest for me by honouring me with thy presence. Apply to me the merits of thy sacred labours while on earth; render the merits of thy death efficacious to me, and permit not thy blood to be shed for me in vain.
Attend, O eternal Father! to the voice of the blood of thy beloved Son, which cries aloud for mercy in my behalf: behold how the whole earth is besprinkled, covered, and overflowing, as it were, by its mystical effusion upon our altars; and through
