O blessed Jesus, true God, and true Man;
By Thy Power in creating heaven, earth, and
all things therein contained;

By Thy Goodness in making man in Thy own
Image and Likeness;

By Thy great Mercy in redeeming man after
his fall;

By Thy unspeakable love in making choice of the Virgin Mary for Thy Mother;

By that meekness and love that drew Thee from the Bosom of the Father, into the Virgin's Womb;

By the humility of Thy Majesty, which disdained not to descend into the Womb of the Virgin Mary ;

By the ineffable mystery of Thy Incarnation,
whereby Thou vouchsafedst to unite Thy
Divine Person to our frail nature;

By Thy immaculate Conception, and Thy
abode within the Blessed Virgin's Womb;
By Thy holy Nativity in a poor stable at
Bethlehem;

By the Hunger, Cold, and other inconveni-
ences that Thou didst endure in Thy tender
Body when laid in the manger;

By Thy painful Circumcision on the eighth
day after Thy birth, and first shedding of
Thy most precious Blood for our sakes;
By the virtue of Thy blessed Name Jesus,

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which was then given Thee, and all Thy blessed Names;

By the mystical offerings of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, presented unto Thee by the three Magi, whom by a miraculous star Thou didst summon out of the East, to adore Thee in Thy Infancy;

By the Oblation of Thyself to Thy eternal Father in the Temple, where Thou wert acknowledged by Simeon and Anna, and redeemed by Thy poor Virgin-Mother with a pair of Doves;

For Thy Flight into Egypt to avoid King Herod's cruelty, and by all Thou didst suffer there with Thy Mother and S. Joseph; For Thy Return from thence to Nazareth, and the humble obedience Thou didst there render to Thy parents;

For Thy being lost by Thy parents in Jerusalem, where after three days Thou wert found by them sitting in the Temple amidst the doctors;

For the secret and hidden life Thou didst lead
in Nazareth with holy Mary and Joseph,
from the twelfth year of Thy age to the
thirtieth;

For Thy meek and lowly conversation during
Thy three-and-thirty years here on earth;
For Thy meek obedience and great patience;

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For Thy most holy meditations, words, and works of mercy;

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PART II.

By Thy humble reception of Baptism at the
hands of John, in the river Jordan;

By Thy Forty Days' Fast in the desert, and
the Three Temptations of the Devil, which
there Thou didst endure and overcome;
For the thirst and hunger, cold and heat,
which Thou didst suffer in this vale of
misery ;

For Thy heaviness, labours, and weariness;
For the detraction and evil words wherewith
Thine enemies slandered Thee;

By Thy wholesome doctrines and benefits, and
mighty resistance against the enemy;

By Thy holy words and sermons, by Thy wonderful signs and miracles;

For Thy first Miracle of turning water into wine at the marriage feast of Cana;

For the zeal Thou didst show for Thy eternal Father's honour, in casting the buyers and sellers out of the Temple;

For Thy humble condescending to talk with the Samaritan woman, sitting at the well; By Thy exceeding great Charity in healing

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the nobleman's son of Capernaum, Simon Peter's mother-in-law, and a multitude of infirm persons;

By the Power Thou didst show in appeasing the tempest of the sea, walking on the water, and enabling Peter to do so likewise; By Thy efficacious calling of Peter and Andrew, James and John, from their boats, and Matthew from the receipt of custom, to follow Thee;

By Thy choosing of the twelve Apostles, to whom Thou didst deliver that Divine Sermon on the Mount, which contains the pattern of a perfect Christian life;

By the Mercy Thou didst show the penitent
Magdalene in preferring her before the Pha-
risee, and pardoning her sins;

By the sending the twelve Apostles to preach
Thy holy Gospel to the people;
By Thy miraculous feeding five thousand per-
sons with five loaves of bread, and four
thousand with seven loaves;

By Thy glorious Transfiguration upon Mount
Tabor, in presence of three of Thy disciples;
By Thy teaching us the virtue and efficacy of
prayer, and giving us an exact form thereof
in the Divine "Our Father;

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PART III.

By that fervent desire Thou hadst to redeem mankind;

By Thy meek and humble entrance into Jeru

salem on Palm Sunday, riding on an ass; By Thy great lowliness and humility in washing the feet of Thy disciples, and even those of Judas the traitor;

By Thy unspeakable Love, shown in the institution of the Sacrifice and Sacrament of Thy most precious Body and Blood;

By that profound love by which Thou didst suffer S. John to rest upon Thy Breast at Supper;

By the virtue of Thy holy Prayer which Thou
didst thrice repeat in the Garden of Olives,
when a Sweat of blood trickled down Thy
Body in Thy most bitter Agony and Thy
fearful dread of death;

For that Agony in the which Thou didst offer
Thyself willingly to death, obeying Thy
Almighty Father;

By Thy Bloody Sweat;

By Thy great meekness that Thou wouldst be comforted by an Angel, so to comfort us in every time;

By Thy condescending to receive a kiss from the wicked Judas;

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