beseech thy clemency in behalf of our brethren, relations, and benefactors, who have departed this life; that the blessed Mary ever Virgin and all thy saints interceding for them, they may come to the fellowship of eternal happiness: through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For all that lie in the Church or
Church-yard.

GOD, by whose mercy the souls of the faithful find rest, grant to all thy servants here and elsewhere, that have slept in Christ, the full pardon of their sins; that being discharged from all guilt, they may rejoice with thee for all eternity: through the same Lord Jesus Christ.

For many deceased.

GOD whose property is always to have mercy and to spare, be favourbly propitious to the souls of thy servants, and grant them the remission of all their sins; that being delivered from the bonds of this mortal life, they may be admitted to life everlasting: through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, &c.

Litany for a Happy Death.

[From the Raccolta.]

Indulgences: 100 days once a day. Plenary, with the usual conditions, and applicable to the dead, once a month, for those who have recited this Litany daily during the month.

LORD Jesus, God of goodness, and Father of mercies, I draw nigh to thee with a contrite and humble heart to thee I recommend the last hour of my life, and that judgment which awaits me afterwards. Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my feet, benumbed with death, shall admonish me that my course in this life is drawing to an end, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my hands, cold and trem bling, shall no longer be able to clasp the crucifix, and shall let it fall against my will on my bed of suffering, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. When my eyes, dim with trouble at the approach of death, shall fix themselves on thee, my last and only

support, Merciful Jesus, have mercy

on me.

When my lips, cold and trembling, pronounce for the last time thy adorable name, Merciful Jesus, have mercy

on me.

When my face, pale and livid, shall inspire the beholders with pity and dismay; when my hair, bathed in the sweat of death, and stiffening on my head, shall forebode my approaching end, Merciful Jesus, have mercy

on me.

When my ears, soon to be for ever shut to the discourse of men, shall be open to that irrevocable decree which is to fix my doom for all eternity, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my imagination, agitated by dreadful spectres, shall be sunk in an abyss of anguish; when my soul, affrighted with the sight of my iniquities and the terrors of thy judg ments, shall have to fight against the angel of darkness, who will endeavour to conceal from my eyes thy mercies, and to plunge me into despair, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my poor heart, oppressed

with suffering and exhausted by its continual struggles with the enemies of its salvation, shall feel the pangs of death, Merciful Jesus, have mercy

on me.

When the last tear, the forerunner of my dissolution, shall drop from my eyes, receive it as a sacrifice of expiation for my sins; grant that I may expire the victim of penance; and in that dreadful moment, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my friends and relations, encircling my bed, shall be moved with compassion for me, and invoke thy clemency in my behalf, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When I shall have lost the use of my senses, when the world shall have vanished from my sight, when my agonizing soul shall feel the sorrows of death, Merciful Jesus, have mercy

on me.

When my last sighs shall force my soul to issue from my body, accept them as the children of a loving impatience to come to thee, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When my soul, trembling on my

lips, shall bid adieu to the world, and leave my body lifeless, pale, and cold, receive this separation as a homage which I willingly pay to thy divine majesty, and in that last moment of my mortal life, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

When at length my soul, admitted to thy presence, shall first behold the splendour of thy majesty, reject me not, but receive me into thy bosom, where I may for ever sing thy praises; and in that moment when eternity shall begin to me, Merciful Jesus, have mercy on me.

Let us pray.

O God, who hast doomed all men to die, but hast concealed from all the hour of their death; grant that I may pass my days in the practice of holiness and justice, and that I may be made worthy to quit this world in the peace of a good conscience, and in the embrace of thy love. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.