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 to thee thy own adorable heart, inflamed with love for these thy persecutors, and praying for thy enemies: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Most merciful Heart of Jesus, propitiously hear the uninterrupted supplications of thy saints and angels, of thy holy martyrs and confessors, in atonement for these repeated insults and injuries, while, in satisfaction for the same, I offer the following tribute of reparation on my own and their part.

Here say any five acts you please of the four and twenty, beginning page 536.

LMIGHTY and eternal Father, permit me to offer thee the Sacred Heart of thy dearest Son, inflamed with the love of thee, and wounded with the love of us. Receive, O merciful Father, this divine heart pleading for us through that ready obedience to thy holy will by which he subjected himself on earth to all our miseries, pains, and afflictions. Receive, in satisfaction for our sins, that love of his sacred heart which caused him to undergo for us that cruel flagellation at the pillory, that tormenting crown of thorns. Receive that divine heart which, through love of us, embraced the heavy cross, and bore its weight to Mount Calvary. Receive, O eternal Father, that most inflamed and humble heart of Jesus, which, through love of us, laid itself on the hard wood of the cross, and offered its sacred hands and feet to cruel executioners, to be transpierced with iron nails. Behold, O heavenly Father, this sacrifice of love, offered to thee for us poor sinners in the heart of thy