The Agonising Heart of Jesus.
The end of this devotion is:
1st. To pay a tribute of homage to the sufferings which the Heart of Jesus endured for the salvation of souls throughout the whole course of his life, and especially during his sacred Passion.
2dly. To obtain, through the merits of this long agony, the grace of a happy death for those who, in number about 80,000, die each day throughout the world 4 a number in nothing exaggerated — it is an ascertained fact.
A Prayer
To be said daily in behalf of those who are in their agony, and of all those who are that day to die.
O most merciful Jesus, fond lover of souls, purify, I implore thee by the agony of thine own most sacred Heart, and by the grief of thy immaculate Mother,— purify in the laver of thy blood all sinners who are in their agony, and who are this day to die, Amen.
Agonising Heart of Jesus, have pity on the dying!
Pious Practice.
Offer up together with this prayer some of your daily actions to the agonising Heart of Jesus, in behalf of those who are that day in their agony.
Pray!
To-day eighty thousand souls are falling in the harvest of death; they are standing before the awful judgment-seat of God; they are entering on an eternity either of weal or woe; and, oh, of that number thousands perhaps are in the state of mortal sin!
