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 Father! forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Lord! lay not this sin to their charge.

My God! I forgive from my heart all who have injured me; and I beg for them all the graces of which they stand in need.

If they have, by injuring me, offended thee, my God! forgive them, I beseech thee.

Preserve me, O my God! from every sentiment of aversion, antipathy, hatred or revenge.

My God! I desire to love, for the love of thee, all who have offended or injured me.

Holy Spirit! whose divine unction teaches and inflames the heart, descend upon us.

Come, O Holy Spirit! replenish our hearts with love; and make us run in the paths of perfection.

O Holy Spirit! impart to us thy wisdom, to discern, on all occasions, the most perfect path, and thy fortitude to pursue it.

O sacred wounds of my Jesus! plead for me, now and at the hour of my death.

Eternal Father! look upon the face of thy Son;-look on his wounds, which implore thee, to have pity on me.

O sacred heart of Jesus! only offering worthy of thy Father, unite me with thyself, in sacrifice of praise and love to him.

O sacred heart of Jesus! burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with the love of thee.

O Jesus! give us thy heart, as a pledge of thy love, and as a place of refuge, that we may find therein a secure repose during life, and a sweet comfort at the hour of death.

My Saviour! hide me in thy sacred heart, until the storm of life is past.

My Jesus! give me a heart conformable to thy own sacred heart.

Give me an humble heart, loving an abject and a hidden life.

Give me a meek heart, ready to bear all in silence to pardon and forget the greatest injuries.

Give me a patient heart, tranquil in the severest trials.

Give me a heart filled with the love of poverty, and with contempt for all earthly things.

Give me a pure heart, having a horror for the pleasures of sense.

Give me an obedient heart, having no will but that of God.