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676 Dcuotww in Honor of the Bksscd Virgin Mafy
acted: look, therefore, with pity an us, miserable
children of Eve, and hear our prayer: for since, in jllst
punishment of our &us, we are encompassed by evils,
whither can we fly for more secure shelter than to thy
maternal protection? Attend, therefore, with an ear
of pity, we beseech thee, to our humble and earnest
request. We ask it through the marcy of thy dear Son,
and through the lwe and d d n wherewith He
embraced our nature, wben, in compliance with the
divine will, thou g m t thy consent, and Whom, after
the expiration of nine months, thou didst bring forth
from thy chaste womb to visit this world, and bless it
with His presence. We ask it through the anguish of
slind wherewith thy beloved Son, our dear Saviour, was
ove~whelmed on Mount Olivet, when He besought Hi
eternal Father to remove from Him, if pospibk, the
bitter chalice of His future Passion. We ask it through
the threefold repetition of His prayer in the garden,
h m whence afterwards, with mournful tears, thou
didst accompany Him to the doleful theater of His
sufferings and death. We ask it through the welds
and sores of His virginal flesh, o&ed by the cords
and whip wherewith He was bound and scourged
when stripped of His seamless garment, for which His
executioners afterwards cast lots. We ask it through
the scoffs and ignominies by which He was insulted,
the false accusations and unjust sentence by which He
was condemned to death, and which He bore with
heavenly patience. We ask it through His bitter tears
and sweat of blood, His silence and resignation, His
sadness and grief of heart. We ask it through the
blood which trickled from His royal and s a d head,
when struck with the scepter of r red and pi?& wib
Wis crown of thorns. We ask it through the tarma&
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