to bless me with such a true sense of my former offences, that I grieve not so much for the fear of punishment, as for the misfortune of having offended thee, the centre of all goodness.

I steadfastly purpose, through thy grace, to seek thee seriously, by the reformation of my life, that I may find thee in the heavenly Jerusalem, reigning with the Father and Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

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ON THE SEVENTH DAY.

MNIPOTENT God, who didst descend from heaven to bring fire on the earth! inflame my frozen heart, that I may imitate the virtues of St. Joseph. As a poor wretch at the gate of some noble and generous prince, expecting an alms, so I appear before thee, wounded in all my senses by sin, and imploring charity in my great distress. I grieve for what has passed, not because I fear, but because I love. Nothing has succeeded with me, because I never consulted thee as I ought: I hope, O Lord! that I do not come too late. I beg, through the intercession of St. Joseph, that I may avoid evil and do good; that I may leave the broad way of iniquity and walk in the narrow road that leads to eternal happiness ; that I may consecrate the remaining days of my short life to thy honour, and attain the end for which I was created: to admire, praise, and love thee for ever and ever. Amen.

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ON THE EIGHTH DAY.

MOST glorious Patriarch, my dear Patron! blessed are the eyes that see what you now see. Through the infinite merits of Christ, and by your powerful intercession, I hope, with holy Job, that in my flesh I shall see God my Saviour. Stretch out, in

favour of your unworthy client, those happy arms that so often bore the Son of God, and provided for him. Petition that I may live, as I wish to die, always in the divine favour. I humbly implore you to entreat your immaculate Spouse to unite her supplications with yours, that I may be of the blessed number of the elect. I most sincerely desire that you may be present at the dreadful hour of my death, and that the last words uttered by my parting breath may be, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Thy mercy is above all thy works, O most Holy Trinity! I now appeal from the tribunal of thy justice, and prostrate myself before the throne of thy mercy, to obtain the pardon of my sins, and grace to persevere in keeping thy commandments to the end of my life. Who livest and reignest one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

ON THE NINTH DAY.

HOLY Wouw God committed the care of

OLY St. Joseph, you who are that good and faith

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his family whom he appointed guardian and protector of the life of Jesus Christ, the comfort and support of his holy Mother, and the depository of his great design of the redemption of mankind; you who had the happiness of living with Jesus and Mary, and of dying in their arms; chaste spouse of the Mother of God: model and patron of pure souls, humble, patient, and reserved; be moved with the confidence we place in your intercession, and accept with kindness this testimony of our devotion.

We give thanks to God for the signal favour he hath been pleased to confer on you, and we conjure him, through your intercession, to enable us to imitate your virtues. Pray for us, then, O great

saint; and by that love which you had for Jesus and Mary, and by the love which they had for you, obtain for us the incomparable happiness of living and dying in the love of Jesus and Mary. Amen.

Novena

FOR THE FESTIVAL OF CORPUS CHRISTI.

(To begin on Wednesday in Pentecost Week.)

AMIABLE Jesus! who hast given us in the

O adorable Eucharist, so convincing a proof of

thy infinite love, permit us to thank thee in the name of all thy creatures, for the blessings included in this one precious gift. We adore thee, O hidden Deity! and most ardently wish we could offer thee such love as would atone for our own offences, and those committed by all mankind against this most amiable mystery. But, my God, if all creatures are so deeply indebted to thy mercy for this adorable sacrament, how much more sensibly should we feel our obligations, since by thy special predilection we have been chosen to assemble here under the same roof with thyself, to see thee daily offered on our altars, and to receive so frequently thy precious body and blood. Convinced by these thy tender mercies that our confidence in thy goodness cannot be too great, we come now to implore of thee, by that infinite love which induced thee to institute this adorable sacrament, and by all the graces which have ever flowed from this source of every blessing, to grant us the favour we ask in this Novena.

We firmly purpose to become from this moment

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the devoted adorers of this sacrament of love, and to take thy eucharistic life for the rule and model of Give us grace to honour thy silence on our altar by the spirit of recollection and prayer; thy poverty, obedience, and adorable sanctity by detachment from all things, renunciation of self-will, and horror of sin. Above all, we beseech thee, O living Bread of eternal life! to remove all obstacles to our frequently and worthily receiving thee; and to grant us so tender a devotion to this adorable mystery, that our hearts and thoughts may ever be turned to thee present on our altars, and every action of our lives be directed to the perfect accomplishment of thy holy will. Amen.

Novena

FOR THE FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART.

(To begin on Corpus Christi.)

ADORABLE Jesus! who hast made known to us thy most sacred heart, that we may form some idea of the extent of thy love! send forth thy light and thy grace into our hearts, that we may value as we ought so precious a favour. We adore thee, O infinitely amiable heart! and beseech thee to receive our adorations, in unison with those thou thyself renderest to the Divinity on our altars; in unison with the perfect homage of all thy saints and in particular in unison with the unceasing adorations of the heavenly spirits, who crowd thy sanctuary during this glorious solemnity, and honour the presence of thy amiable heart on our altars. Yet

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it is not for those pure and ardent spirits that thou remainest for love in the holy Eucharist; it is for us, it is for all creatures, even for those who are most unmindful of all thy mercies. But though all the world should forget thee, O divine victim of charity! surely we at least should return thee love for love, since thou hast loved us with an eternal charity, and selected us, long before our existence, as the favourites of thy divine heart, the objects of its tenderest affection and peculiar favours. Penetrated with the confidence which should arise from the recollection of all thou hast already done for us, and art willing to do for those who trust in thee, we humbly represent our present necessities to thee, O adorable heart! the fountain of all graces! the ocean of mercy, and exhaustless source of consolation and strength! we most fervently entreat of thee to infuse into our hearts the dispositions thou requirest, and then, for thy own sake, to grant the earnest petitions of this Novena.

Thou art, O furnace of love! a public victim: thy mercies and graces are now peculiarly offered to all who will only ask that they may receive; but thy tenderest compassion seems peculiarly directed to all unhappy sinners. For them thou wert overwhelmed with sorrow in the Garden of Olives, and wounded on the cross; for them we most particularly pray, and most earnestly entreat the grace of conversion. For ourselves, whatever particular graces thou knowest to be most necessary for each of us, but particularly that ardent charity and sincere humility which we know to have been the favourite virtues of thy adorable heart.

Animate us with thy zeal for the salvation of those, committed to our care; model their hearts on thine,