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 Colloquy. — O most sweet Jesus, by these Thy most sacred wounds, I beseech Thee " give me wings like a dove" to "fly and be at rest" in them while I live, mourning for my sins, for whose cause Thou receivedst them, that at the day of judgment I may look on them and behold them with joyfulness, and through them mayest admit me to Thy glory! Amen.

4. Fourthly, then will I consider how on Christ our Saviour's side will be placed another throne of exceeding great glory for His most sacred Mother; for it is very just that in this judgment she, like another " Bethsabe," should be seated on the side of the true Solomon, not to be the advocate for sinners, (for that time is now past), but to confound them, because they would not make use of so holy a Mother and so powerful an advocate as they had, as also that the righteous may be comforted by her presence, and she herself be honoured before all the world for the humiliations that she suffered in this life from those that knew her not, and did her outrage in the passion of her Son.

Colloquy. — O sovereign Virgin, I rejoice for the glory thou shalt have at that day! Aid me, I beseech thee, with thy intercession, that then also I may be joyful with thy presence!

5. Finally, round about the throne of our Lord Christ will stand another throne, where His Apostles (as He promised them) shall " sit judging the twelve tribes of Israel," and all the nations of the world, condemning by their exemplary life the evil life of sinners, approving the sentence of the supreme Judge, and in His name declaring the righteousness of it. And, as many holy fathers affirm, there shall likewise be seated in thrones of glory the poor of spirit, who, in imitation of the apostles, left all things for Christ.