My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

254 The Holy Sawijicc of tbc Mass
heaven as a means to make me becorne more Christlike,
to atone for my sins, to wean me from the love
of self and the gratification of my passibns, to teach
me the vanities of the world, to lead me to greater
perfection -in a word, to make me a saint. I
will remember my Saviour's words: "If any man
will come after Me, let him deny himself, take up
his cross M y and follow Me" (Ltlke ix. 23).
I will accept with resignation and bear with
patience every cross that comes to me, mindful of
lhe Apostle's words, "We know that to them that
love God all things work together unto good
(Rom. viii. a8). Every pain may help us to shorten
our purgatory; every pain, moreover, is a means
of merit and reparation when it is met in the spirit
of our blessed Saviour, when it is accepted in union
with His sufferings and endured for His sake on
behalf of souls for which He died.
0 Jesus l I adore Thee carrying with love for
us the cross prepared for Thee by Thy Father,
and we beg of Thee, through the intercession of
Thy holy and sorrowful Mother, patience and
resignation in the trials of this life.
Divine Jesus! we adore Thee in the unfathomable
debasements of Thy passion and of Thy
presence on the altar; we adore Thee, 0 loving
King ! overwhelmed with insults both in Thy
passion and in the sacred Host, and we beg of
Thee, through the intercession of Thy holy and
sorrowful Mother, the penitential spirit, the spirit
of humility, obedience, and sacdim, the grace
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