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 that he  wounds  me  with  the  very  weapons  with  which  he was  to  have  been  wounded  himself.

Regard, O Lord,  my  humility  and  my  toil,  and  pardon me all  my  faults  through  thy  only-begotten  Son,  in  whom thou art  well  pleased. Let me  please  thee  in  prayer  as  well  as in  deed,  though,  alas! there is  much  in  it  that  is  defective. But thou  wilt  not,  O Holy  Father,  despise  it,  if  thou  look upon the  face  of  thy  Christ; for  thou  hast  heaped  upon  him all the  treasures  of  thy  grace  and  bounty,  that  We  might  be rich  through  his  abundance.

Confirm, O God,  that  which  thou  hast  wrought  in  me; for I have  sworn  and  determined  to  keep  the  judgments of thy  justice. Make me  to  love  thy  commandments  above gold and  the  topaz,  that  I may  love  thee,  and  be  loved  by thee,  to  all  eternity. Amen.

Receive, O most  merciful  God,  my  dutiful  service, through the  intervention  of  the  merits  of  thy  only-begotten Son  Christ  Jesus,  and  also  of  the  prayers  of  the  most Blessed Virgin  Mary,  and  of  all  thy  Saints.

And if  I have  done  anything  worthy  of  praise,  favourably regard  it; and  that  which  has  been  done  negligently mercifully pardon. Who, in  the  perfection  of  the  Trinity, livest and  reignest,  God,  world  without  end. Amen.