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 of goodness and of a holy life to all. ''Our Father (five times), and Glory be to the Father, etc. (once). ''

V. We beseech Thee therefore, help Thy servants, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Precious Blood.

TILL more Precious Blood did the Redeemer of mankind shed in His barbarous crucifixion, when, His veins and arteries being torn asunder, there rushed forth in a torrent from His hands and feet that saving balm of eternal life, to pay for all the crimes and sins of a lost world. Who, after this, would continue in sin and thus renew the cruel crucifixion of the Son of God? Let us weep bitterly for our bad deeds done, and detest them before the feet of the sacred minister of God; let us amend our evil ways, and henceforth begin a truly Christian life, with the remembrance ever in our hearts of all the Blood which our salvation cost the Saviour of men. Our Father (five times), and Glory be to the Father, etc. (once).

V. We beseech Thee therefore, help Thy servants, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Precious Blood.

AST of all, after His death, when His sacred side was opened by the lance, and His loving Heart was wounded, Jesus shed blood, and with it there came forth water, to show us how