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and with the most profound veneration. To testify the grief which we feel for our past insensibility to all the outrages and sufferings which thy most loving Heart made thee endure for our salvation, in thy bitter passion and death, we unite in sincerity of heart with all those who love thee, in order that we may thank thee with our whole soul. We admire the infinite patience and generosity of thy divine Heart, and petition thee to replenish our hearts with that spirit of Christian mortification, which may make us courageously embrace sufferings, and fix our great consolation and all our glory in thy cross.

Our Father, etc. Had Mary, etc. Glory be to the Father, etc.

III. — Thou hast given them bread from heaven, which abounds with all delights.

O JESUS, inflamed with love of us, humbly prostrate at thy feet, we adore thee with our whole mind, and with the most profound veneration. In order to make atonement for the outrages which thy divine Heart daily receives in the most blessed Sacrament of the altar, we unite in sincerity of heart with all those who love thee, and render thee the most affectionate thanksgiving. We love, in thy divine Heart, that intensely-burning love which thou entertainest for thy eternal Father, and humbly beseech thee to inflame our hearts with an ardent love of thee and of our neighbour.

Our Father, etc. Hail Mary, etc. Glory be to the Father, etc.

Finally, O most amiable Jesus, we beseech thee, by the sweetness of thy most Sacred Heart, to convert sinners, to comfort the afflicted, to assist the agonising,