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THIRD PRAYER
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O
SWEET compassion, O dear liberality of my
God, that openest thy bosom to all, and art the
thought of my sins of commission, I blush and am
ashamed at my sins of omission, I greatly fear by reason
of the wretched waste I have made of my whole life. I
quail with awe while I look onward to that scrutiny
wherewith thou wilt search me when thou, my God,
shalt enter into judgment with me. For if thou shalt
require at my hands an account of the time and the
talents which thou hast entrusted to me, I find within me
no answer worthy of thine exceeding love to me. What
shall I do, or whither betake myself? Oh, spare me and
have mercy on me, Jesus, my Love, who for me wast
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condemned to an unjust death, laden with thy heavy
cross, fastened to thy cross with cruel nails, mocked in
thy thirst with vinegar and gall, till thou didst die for me
a bitter death. Thou hast given thy soul for my soul, thy
life for my life, thy death for my death. Thou didst once
offer thyself upon the cross, and thou dost even now
daily offer to God the Father upon the altar that Sacrifice
which transcends all merit, and is infinitely more than
enough to pay all my debt. Oh, by this Sacrament renew
my life, and restore to me a hundred-fold all I have
wasted and lost. Blot out all mine iniquities in thy
compassion, cover all my sins with thy charity, make
amends for all my negligences by thy love, and in that
love restore to me that liberty of spirit wherein thou, the
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