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that a father should permit his son to ask him for a piece
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www.oremusapostolate.com FATHER of mercies and God of all consolation,
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of money, if at each demand he laid up for him a hundred.
In like manner do not wonder if I seem to defer to grant
your petition in this matter; for as often as you pray to
me in this matter; be it only by one word or by one
thought, I lay up in store for you far more than a
hundred-fold of eternal good things.
O
vouchsafe, I beseech thee, to look on me with the
eyes of thy compassion, as thou didst look upon
thy beloved Son when, in the Garden of Olives, he cried
unto thee in the sore anguish of his spirit, and bedewed
the ground with his sweat of blood. Is it not thy will, O
most pitiful Father, that we should flee to thee in all our
necessities, and call upon thee to turn away from us all
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our perils? Seeing, therefore, that thou willest that we
should pray to thee and call upon thy Name, I beseech
thee in accordance with thy will that thou wouldst
deliver me from this tribulation, in thy own most
adorable good-pleasure. O most tender Father, incline the
ears of thy compassion to my prayers, all unworthy as
they are, and draw me out of this great strait. Before the
eyes of thy mercy, at the feet of thy tender love, I lay
open all the anguish of my heart and the distress of my
spirit, and I offer it to thee that thou mayest do with it as
seemeth best in thy sight. O sweet Jesus, by all the
anguish and the distress thou didst undergo for our
salvation, let this chalice pass from me. O most
compassionate Jesus, I offer thee that transcending
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