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In the first, thank the Eternal Father for having given us his only Son in the divine Eucharist, and offer up to him the sentiments of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in acknowledgment of so great a favour.

In the second, return thanks to Jesus Christ, for having instituted this adorable mystery, and for all the favours he has done us in the work of our redemption; as also for having been pleased to make his Sacred Heart known to us in these latter days.

In the third, thank our blessed Redeemer, for all the benefits we have received from him in the blessed Eucharist, and ask of him, that all his designs may be most perfectly accomplished in us.

The fourth shall be, in order to bemoan before the Sacred Heart all the sacrilegious communions which have hitherto been made, and to deplore all