bears the taunts and insults of the Jews! Reflect with confusion on that proud sensibility of yours, which takes fire at the very shadow of contempt; on your discontent and murmurs at the slightest afflictions; your obstinate resistance to the will of Heaven, in the crosses of this life; although these are calculated to lead you, not to Calvary, but to the joys of eternal glory. From your heart unite in the following
PRAYER.
MEEK humble Jesus ! my iniquity and perverseness loaded thy shoulders with the heavy burden of the cross. Yet, shameful ingratitude of mine ! a vile worm of the earth, I dislike even the appearance of mortification, and shrink from everything that would check the violence of my passions; and if I suffer, it is with murmuring and reluctance. I now, O Saviour of the world, detest my past life, and by thy grace am determined no more to offend thee mortally. Let me only glory in the cross of my Lord, by which the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. Lay then on me the cross of true penance. Let me, for the love of thee, bear the adversities of this life, and cleave to thee inseparably in the bonds of charity. Amen.
Our Father, etc. Hail Mary, etc. Glory be to the Father, etc.
V. Jesus Christ crucified, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us: O Lord have mercy on us.
V. And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R. Amen.
O quam tristis et afflícta
fuit illa benedícta,
mater Unigéniti!
