INSTRUCTIONS AND PRAYERS
FOR THE SICK, DYING, DEAD,
ETC.
WHENEVER God shall please to visit you with sickness, you ought to prepare diligently to die well. For that purpose, endeavor to disengage your heart from the cares of this world, and from all inordinate attachments; receive devoutly the sacraments of the Church, and implore the Almighty most earnestly to g^ant you all the graces you stand in need of.
Recall to mind the passion and death of our Redeemer Jesus Christ, embrace in your heart his cross, kiss his sacred feet, take refuge in his wounds, that you may now escape the snares which beset you, earnestly beseeching him to cleanse your soul with his precious blood, and to pardon you all your transgressions; but, inasmuch as your own life has been unprofitable and imperfect, be careful to offer up to the Father of mercies the infinite merits of his eternal Son, his incarnation, his labors, his agonies, his sufferings, and his death.
Recommend yourself moreover to the powerful intercession of his Virgin Mother, and to the prayers of all the saints, hoping most confidently that if you are truly sorry for your sins, if you detest them from your heart, these charitable intercessors will obtain for you the graces most necessary to conduct you safely through this dangerous passage.
A PROFESSION TO BE MADE BY THE SICK.
I SINCERELY profess and acknowledge, O my God, that the pains I now suffer are most justly due to my manifold offences. I accept them at thy hand with the most profound submission, abandoning myself entirely to thy will. I forgive from my heart
