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 the virtue of all the prayers which thy Son poured out before thee on behalf of sinners, that thou wouldst deign to render this my oblation valid, acceptable, and availing; and by the most sinless Humanity of the same Jesus Christ thy Son to look on me as pure and cleansed from all sin, and endowed and adorned by his glorious Divinity with all those virtues wherewith that. same Divinity caused his most holy Humanity to blossom and to bear fruit. Amen.

This prayer was revealed to St. Gertrude during a marvellous and unusual visitation of grace, and she was told at the same time that our Lord would accept it with singular favour from all who repeated it. It became so familiar to the saint that during her last illness she repeated it continually. 

Most loving Father, in atonement and satisfaction for all my sins, I offer thee all the whole Passion of thy most beloved Son, from the plaintive wail he uttered when laid upon straw in the manger, through all the helplessness of his infancy, the privations of his boyhood, the adversities of his youth, the sufferings of his manhood, until that hour when he bowed his Head upon the cross with a loud cry, and gave up the ghost. And, in atonement and satisfaction for all my negligences, I offer thee, O most