Daily Devotions
INSTRUCTIONS AND DEVOTIONS FOR MORNING.
As soon as you awake, make the sign ✠ of the cross, saying:
Glory be to the Father, who hath created me.
Glory Be to the Son, who hath redeemed me.
Glory, be to the Holy Ghost, who hath sanctified me.
Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and forever. Amen.
On rising from your bed say,
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I arise. May he bless, preserve, and govern me, and bring me to everlasting life. Amen.
While you are dressing, occupy yourself with pious thoughts and meditations on some point in the life or passion of your Saviour, on God's mercies, on your own sins, on the temptations of the world, on the shortness of life, on eternity, &c.; or say some psalm or hymn. See Index.
As soon as you are dressed, prepare to say your morning prayers. There is no duty of greater importance than this; none has greater influence upon our lives. According as it is well on ill performed will be the character of the day; and our life is made up of days. Before you begin your prayers, therefore recollect yourself, and compose your mind. Think who you are, and what He is whom you are about to address; and endeavour to clothe yourself with those sentiments of humility, reverence, and awe which become you on such an occasion, and at such a time. Then, kneeling, down in the quietest and most retired spot
