V/. DEUS, in adjutorium meum intende. R/. DOMINE, ad adjuvandum me festina. V/. Gloria PATRI, etc. V/. O GOD, come to my assistance.
FIRST WORD: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
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, there by thy pains to pay the penalty of my sins, and didst open thy divine mouth to obtain for me the pardon of them from Eternal Justice; O JESUS, pity all the faithful who are now in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood shed for our salvation, vouchsafe unto us all such lively sorrow for our sins that at our death we may breathe forth our souls into the bosom of thy infinite mercy. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
SECOND WORD: This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise. V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
THIRD WORD: Behold thy Mother! Behold thy Son. V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
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, unmindful of thine own sorrows, didst leave us thy own most holy Mother as the pledge of thy love, that through her intercession we might seek Thee with confidence in our greatest straits; have pity on all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the inward martyrdom of thy dear Mother, quicken in our hearts a firm hope in the infinite merits of thine own most Precious Blood, that so we may escape the sentence of eternal death, which we have merited by our sins. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
FOURTH WORD: My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ? V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
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, whilst suffering after suffering was heaped upon Thee, with all thy bodily pain didst bear with infinite patience the most afflicting desolation of spirit, being forsaken by thine Eternal FATHER; 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, grant us all thy grace, that we may suffer with patience the pain and anguish of our last agony, and so, joining our pains with thine, be made partakers of thy glory in Paradise. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
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 who, insatiable in thy thirst for insults and sufferings, didst will yet more and more to suffer, that all men might be saved, showing thereby that all the torrent of thy Passion was not enough to quench the thirst of thy most loving Heart; 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, kindle in our hearts such fire of charity, as may make them burn to be made one with Thee for all eternity. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
SIXTH WORD: It is consummated. V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
SEVENTH WORD: Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit. V/. Adoramuste, CHRISTE, et benedicimus tibi. R/. Quia per sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
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 who in accomplishment of the great sacrifice didst accept the will of thine Eternal FATHER, commending thy spirit into his hands, and so didst bow thy head and die; 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, give us in our agony an entire conformity to thy divine will, that ready to live or die as it please Thee, we may desire nothing so much as that thine adorable will may ever find its full accomplishment in us. Gloria PATRI, thrice. V/. Miserere nostri, DOMINE. R/. Miserere nostri.
Maria, mater gratiæ, Mater misericordiæ, Tu nos ab hoste protege, Et mortis hora suscipe.
R/. Libera nos, DOMINE. V/. Ab insidiis diaboli, R/. Libera nos, DOMINE. V/. A morte perpetua, R/. Libera nos, DOMINE Oremus. DEUS, qui ad humani generis salutem in dolorosissima FILII tui morte exemplum et subsidium constituisti; concede, quæsumus, ut in extreme mortis nostræ periculo tantæ charitatis effectum consequi et ipsius Redemptoris gloriæ consociari mereamur. Per eundem CHRISTUM DOMINUM nostrum. R/. Amen. V/. From sudden and unprepared death,