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EAVENLY Father, Thou hast in kindness taken us for Thy children. Thou wouldst draw us to Thyself and Thy Heart forever, and make us eternally happy with Thy divine love. May the angels and saints, who already enjoy the unending bliss of possessing Thee, love Thee for us, thank Thee for us evermore. Out of nothingness Thou didst raise the world of angels to Thy throne into eternal happiness. We children of men thank Thee for this, their everlasting blessedness; we thank Thee that Thou hast appointed the heavenly spirits to be our guardians, so that one day we, too, being joined to their company, might love Thee eternally and enjoy Thee without end. For these and all Thy numberless benefits we thank Thee with the choirs of angels, with the hosts of the blessed forever and ever!

(Ind. of 300 days, once a day. — Pius X. May 6, 1909.)

ESUS Christ, Son of the living God, give thanks to the eternal Father in heaven in the name of all the children of God. Redeemed by Thy Precious Blood, we have grown up and been reared in the true faith. As favorite children of God we have been loaded down with the gifts of nature and grace of the Holy Ghost. And like so many others we have been ungrateful children of God. ‘Therefore we beseech Thee, only-begotten of the Father, do Thou deign on