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O my God, Who hast constituted prayer for the souls in purgatory one of the most essential of our duties, grant that I may find, in Thy infinite merits and charity, the pardon of all my past tepidity and sloth. Let the remembrance of Thy justice, which keeps them fast bound in prison for faults which I myself so commonly commit, excite in me a firm resolution of entering on the way of penance to expiate my sins, and cause me to walk with more circumspection, that I may not relapse into my former errors. — I will no longer delay to do penance. Henceforth I will labor thereat whilst there is yet time. I will pray most humbly for the souls of the faithful departed; I will deprive myself even of allowable pleasures and enjoyments, to quench the flames in which they suffer; I will pour my alms into the lap of the poor, to make interest in their behalf. Bless these resolutions, my God, and grant me grace to fulfil them.

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth, and I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God my Saviour; my eyes shall