sins, may by his prayers be delivered; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer to a Saint on his Feast-Day.
O holy N., I praise thee, bless thee, and glorify thee, and congratulate thee with all my heart on all the glory and honour which , are rendered to thee to-day, through the boundless liberality of the divine goodness. I recall to thy mind now the overflowing gladness with which thou didst rejoice when thou what presented before the face of the glory of God by the ministry of holy angels, to receive from him thine everlasting reward. Remember, O most blessed saint, all thy honour and thy glad rejoicing when the hand of God placed the crown of the kingdom on thy head, and thy soul was set upon the throne of its glory. For these and all o*her benefits and graces which have been ever bestowed upon thee by the God of majesty, I adore, praise, and bless his unutterable goodness, that he hath poured out upon thee in such abundance the flood of his sweetest compassion; and as the bond of that perpetual love and faithfulness' in which I desire to bind myself to thee, I offer thee the sweetest Heart of my Jesus, that treasure of all good things, together with all the love and the condescension he hath ever showed thee upon earth, and now showeth thee in the heavens. And, finally, with most assured trust I commend myself to thy most holy prayers; beseeching and imploring thee that in the dread hour of my death thou wouldst offer unto the Lord, in satisfaction for wry manifold negligences, all that collected fervour with which thou didst stand before God perfect and complete on this the day of thine entrance into Paradise. Amen.
HYMNS FOR SAINTS IN MARCH.
Mar. 1. St. David, Patron of the Diocese! of Menevia and Newport ...... . 258,259
7. St. Thomas Aquinas .. 157, 158
9. St. Francis ... 260
12. St. Gregory ... 149
17. St. Patrick, Patron of Ireland ... 233
18. St Gabriel ... 154
20. St. Cuthbert, Patron of Diocese of Hexham ... 258, 259
21. St. Benedict . . . . . 266
