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 Our Father,  &c. Hail Mary,  &c. Glory be  to  the Father, &c.

O holy  Mother! impress deeply  on  my  heart  the Wounds of  my  crucified  Jesus.

MARY, Virgin  Mother  of  God ! martyr of  love and sorrow,  at  the  sight  of  the  sufferings  and  humiliations of  Jesus! Thou hast  concurred  in  the  work of my  redemption,  by  thy  innumerable  afflictions; especially by  the  offering  thou  didst  make  to  the eternal Father  of  this  only  Son,  as  a  holocaust  and  a victim  of  propitiation  for  my  sins. I feelingly  compassionate thy  most  bitter  sorrow. I thank  thee  for the almost  infinite  love  with  which,  to  save  us  miserable sinners,  thou  didst  consent  to  be  deprived  of  thy Son Jesus,  true  God  and  true  Man. O holy  Virgin, Mother of  God! no one  has  ever  implored  thy  powerful intercession  in  vain;  use,  then,  thy  influence  with the Father  and  the  Son,  that  breaking  now,  and  for ever, the  chain  of  my  bad  habits  and  perverse  inclinations, I  may  never,  by  any  new  sin,  again  crucify  my Jesus,  but  that  I  may  persevere  in  his  grace  until death, and  obtain  eternal  life  through  the  merits  he acquired  for  me  by  his  bitter  passion  and  death  upon the cross.

Hail Mary, &c.,  three  times.

JESUS, my  Lord  and  my  God! who didst, about the  sixth  hour,  vouchsafe  to  be  nailed  to the  cross,  for  the  redemption  of  the  world,  and  on  it to  shed  thy  precious  blood  for  the  remission  of  our sins, we  humbly  supplicate  thee  to  grant,  that,  after our death,  we  may  be  admitted  into  the  mansions  of the  blessed;  there  to  adore,  love,  praise  and  enjoy thee for  ever.