Let us pray.
We beseech thy clemency, O Lord, that thou wouldst vouchsafe so to strengthen thy servants in thy grace, that at the hour of death the enemy may not prevail over them, but that they may deserve to pass with thy angels into everlasting life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who with thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
Almighty and most gracious God, who for thy thirsting people didst bring forth from the rock a stream of living water, draw forth from the hardness of our hearts tears of compunction, that we may bewail our sins, and receive remission of them from thy mercy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Redeemer of the world, behold, prostrate at thy feet, an ungrateful and perfidious creature. O my God, I have offended thee exceedingly in thought, in word, and in deed. My heinous crimes fixed thee to the bloody cross. To rescue one from eternal damnation, thou didst endure an agony of three hours on Mount Calvary. How much I am displeased with myself how grieved at having offended thee, a God of infinite goodness, of infinite charity! I am astonished at thy unwearied patience in supporting a provoking sinner. With my whole heart I detest any sins; and because I love thee, and will love thee above all created things, I steadfastly purpose, by the help of thy grace, never more to offend thee, and rather to die than to commit one mortal sin. Amen.
O Jesus, who during thy prayer to the Father in the garden, wast so filled with sorrow and anguish, that there came forth from thee a bloody sweat: have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us Lord; have mercy on us.
O Jesus, who wast betrayed by the kiss of a traitor into the hands of the wicked, seized and bound like a thief, and abandoned by thy disciples: have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.
O Jesus, who by the unjust
