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 effaced by the reverent devotion with which he had always said the

Gloria Patri.

While St. Mechtilde was praying for one who had complained to her that she frequently said her hours with great distractions, she received this answer from our Lord: Let her always say, after each hour, the following prayer; adding, that if it could not be said punctually after each separate hour, it should at least be said seven times during the day. 

God, be merciful to me a sinner! or, O most meek and gentle Lamb of God, have mercy on me, and deign to supply all my defects and negligences in saying this hour.

Lord Jesus, I commend this my lukewarm and distracted service to thy Divine Heart, that it maybe therein cleansed and perfected; I offer it to thee in union with the love with which thou didst endure death, and set forth thy death, together with all the fruit of thy holy Incarnation, before God the Father on the day of thine ascension.

While St. Gertrude was offering a certain action to God, saying: 

O Lord, I offer thee this work through thine only Son, in the power of the Holy