R/. O LORD make haste to help me. V/. Glory be to the FATHER, etc.
V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
V/. We adore Thee, O CHRIST, and we bless Thee. R/. Because by thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world. JESUS, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and with such readiness and bounty didst respond to the faith of the good thief, who in thy humiliations acknowledged Thee to be the SON of GOD, and didst assure unto him the Paradise prepared for him; oh, pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merit of thy most Precious Blood,
wake up in our souls such firm and steadfast faith as shall never waver at any suggestion of the evil one; that so we also may obtain the prize of holy Paradise. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
FIFTH WORD: I thirst. V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
V/. We adore Thee, O CHRIST, and we bless Thee. R/. Because by thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.
JESUS, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and from this pulpit of truth didst announce that the work of our redemption was finished that work through which, from children of wrath and perdition, we become GOD’S children and the heirs of heaven; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, detach us wholly from the world and from ourselves, and at the moment of our agony grant us grace to offer Thee with all our hearts the sacrifice of our life, in expiation for our sins. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
V/. Have mercy on us, O LORD. R/. Have mercy on us. My GOD, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee.
Prayer to the Holy Virgin, Mother of Sorrows. MOST Holy Mother of sorrows, by that intense martyrdom which thou didst suffer at the foot of the Cross during the three hours of the agony of JESUS, deign to aid us all, children of thy sorrows, in our last agony, that by thy prayers we may pass from our bed of death to adorn thy crown in Paradise. Ave Maria, thrice.
Mother of mercy, Mother of grace, Mary, help a fallen race; Shield us when the foe is nigh, And receive us when we die.
V/. A subitanea et improvisa morte R/. Deliver us, O LORD. V/. From the snares of the devil, R/. Deliver us, O LORD V/. From everlasting death, R/. Deliver us, O LORD. Let us pray. GOD,who for the salvation of the human race hast, in the most bitter death of thy SON, made for us both an example and a refuge; grant, we beseech Thee, that in the last peril, at the hour of our death, we may merit to obtain the full effect of his great charity, and be made partakers of our REDEEMER’S glory. Through the same JESUS CHRIST our LORD. R/. Amen.
End with the three ejaculations, JESUS, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. JESUS, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. JESUS, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul with you in peace.