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 thousand times with heart and mouth: Not my will, but thine be done, O most loving Jesus, in me, by mo, in all that concerns me, in time and in eternity. Amen.

When St. Gertrude was about to pray for a sick person, she asked our Lord what prayer would be most pleasing in his sight, and received this answer: Say the fete following words for him with a devout heart; and as often as you repeat them, both you and the sick person shall receive a notable increase of merit. Those who are sick may say this prayer for themselves, making the needful changes. 

Lord Jesus, I beseech thee, by that love wherewith thou didst bear all our languors and carry all our sorrows, that thou wouldst sustain the patience of this thy servant who is sick, and overrule for thy greater glory and his most real advantage all these moments of his suffering in conformity with the decree which thy fatherly Heart hath decreed from eternity for his everlasting salvation. Amen.

BELOVED truth, O just equity of God, how shall I appear before thy face, bearing my iniquity, the guilt of the waste and loss of my life, and the burden of my exceeding negligence! I have not only spent in vain the talent of