TO OUR BLESSED LADY OF DOLOURS.
O Mary, Virgin Mother of God, who endurest a martyrdom of love and grief at beholding the sufferings and sorrows of Jesus, thou didst co-operate in the benefit of my redemption by thy innumerable afflictions, and by offering to the Eternal Father his only-begotten Son and thine, as a holocaust and victim of propitiation for my sins. I compassionate thy bitter sufferings; I thank thee for the all but infinite love which led thee to deprive thyself of the fruit of thy womb, true God and true man, to save me a sinner. Ah, interpose the ever-availing intercession of thy dolours with the Father and the Son, that I may steadfastly amend my life, and never again crucify my loving Redeemer by new sins; and that, persevering till death in his grace, I may obtain eternal life through the merits of his painful cross and Passion.
Three Hail Marys.
Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, who at the sixth hour didst ascend the gibbet of the cross for the redemption of the world, and didst shed thy Precious Blood for the remission of sins; we humbly beseech thee to grant us after death the joy of entering the gates of paradise.
Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the Blessed Virgin Mary, thy Mother, may intercede for us with thy clemency, now and at the hour of our death, who in the hour of thy Passion was pierced in her most holy soul by the sword of sorrow; grant this, O Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.
100 days' Indulgence daily to all the faithful who shall devoutly recite the above prayers to the Five "Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ. To those who shall have recited them at least ten times a month, a plenary Indulgence twice a year, namely, on the Feast of the Invention of the most Holy Cross (3d May), and of its Exaltation (14th Sept.), they having confessed and communicated on those days. And further, to those who shall recite them from Passion Sunday to the end of the Holy "Week inclusive, an Indulgence of seven years, and seven quarantains on each of the said days,
