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 charity and thy mercy, grant that the dignity and worth of thy Passion may be the entire remission of all my sins. Amen.

JESUS, Mirror of the eternal splendour, remember now that sadness which filled thy heart when thou didst behold in the mirror of thy Divinity the reprobation of the wicked and the multitude of the lost; and by the depth of the compassion thou didst then feel for lost and despairing sinners, and by the mercy thou didst show to the robber on the cross, saying: This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise, I beseech thee, O compassionate Jesus, show me thy mercy in the hour of my death. Amen.

JESUS, King most beloved, remember now all the mournful desolation of thy heart, when thou, the tenderest and most faithful of friends, wast forsaken by all, and mocked as thou hungest on the cross; when thou didst find none. to comfort thee but thy beloved Mother, who stood by thy cross to the last, and whom thou didst commend to thy disciple, saying: Woman, behold thy son; and to the disciple: Behold thy Mother. I beseech thee, O compassionate Jesus, by that sword of anguish which then pierced her heart, do thou condole with me and