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Preparation for a Happy Death
LITANY FOR A HAPPY DEATH
Lord, have mercy on us!
Christ, have mercy on us!
Lord, have mercy on us! Holy Mary,
pray for us.
All ye holy Angels and Archangels,
Holy Abel,
All ye Choirs of the Just,
Holy Abraham,
St. John the Baptist,
St. Joseph,
All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
St. Peter,
St, Paul,
St. Andrew,
St. John,
All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists,
All ye holy Disciples of Our Lord,
All ye holy Innocents,
St. Stephen,
St. Lawrence,
All ye holy Martyrs,
St. Sylvester,
St. Gregory,
St. Austin,
All ye holy Bishops and Confessors,
St. Benedict,
St. Francis,
St. Camillus,
St. John of God,
All ye holy Monks and Hermits,
St. Mary Magdalen,
St. Lucy,
All ye holy Virgins and Widows,
All ye Saints of God,
Intercede for us.
Be merciful unto us,
Spare us, 0 Lord.
Be merciful unto us,
Hear us, 0 Lord.
From Thine anger,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the peril of death,
From an evil death,
From the pains of hell,
From all evil,
From the power of the devil,
By Thy Birth,
By Thy Cross and Passion,
By Thy Death and Burial,
By Thy glorious Resurrection,
By Thine admirable Ascension,
By the grace of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter,
In the day of judgment, We sinners,
We beseech Thee to hear us!
That Thou wouldst spare us,
We beseech Thee to hear us!
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to grant eternal
rest to all the faithful departed,
We beseech Thee to hear us! Lord, have mercy on us!
Christ, have mercy on us!
Lord, have mercy on us! Let us pray
We beseech Thy clemency, 0 Lord, that Thou wouldst vouchsafe so to confirm Thy servants in
Thy grace, that at the hour of death, the enemy
may not prevail over us, and that we may deserve
to pass with Thine Angels into everlasting life.
Amen. STATIONS OF THE SACRED PASSION
0 Jesus, Who, during Thy prayer to the Father
in the garden, was so filled with sorrow and
anguish that there came from Thee a bloody sweat; have mercy on us! Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us! 0 Jesus, Who was betrayed by the kiss of a
traitor into the hands of the wicked, seized and
Bound like a thief, and forsaken by Thy disciples; have mercy on us !
I Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us! 0 Jesus, Who, by the unjust council of the
Jews, wast sentenced to death, led like a malefactor before Pilate, scorned and derided by
impious Herod; have mercy on us!
Have mercy on w, 0 Lord; have mercy on us < 0 Jesus, Who was stripped of Thy garments
and most cruelly scourged at the pillar; have
mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was crowned with thorns,
buffeted, struck with a reed, blindfolded, clothed with a purple
garment, in many ways derided,
and over, whelmed with reproaches; have mercy
on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was less esteemed than the
murderer Barabbas, rejected by the Jews, and
unjustly condemned to the death of the Cross;
have mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was loaded with a cross, and led
to the place of execution as a lamb to the
slaughter; have mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was numbered among thieves,
blasphemed and derided, made to drink of gall and
vinegar, and crucified in dreadful torment from
the sixth to the ninth hour; have mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who didst expire on the Cross, Who
wast pierced with a lance in presence of Thy holy
Mother, and from Whose Side poured forth blood
and water; have mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was taken down from the Cross,
and bathed in the tears of Thy most sorrowing
Virgin Mother; have mercy on us!
Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
0 Jesus, Who was covered with bruises,
marked with the Five Wounds, embalmed with
spices and laid in the sepulcher; have mercy on
us! Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us!
He hath truly borne our sorrows:
And He hath carried our grief's.
Let us pray
0 God, Who, for the redemption of the world,
didst deign to be rejected by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas with a kiss; to be bound with
fetters, and led like an innocent lamb to the
slaughter, to be ignominiously brought before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod; to be accused
by false witnesses, to be scourged, buffeted, and
teviled, to be spit upon, to be crowned with
thorns, and struck with a reed; to be blindfolded, to be stripped of Thy garments, to be nailed to a
floss, and raised thereon; to be numbered among
thieves, to be made to drink of gall and vinegar,
and to be pierced with a lance; do Thou, 0 Lord
by these most holy sufferings, which we, Thy
servants, commemorate, and by Thy most holy
Cross and Death, deliver us from the pains of
hell, and conduct us, as Thou didst the penitent
thief, into Thy paradise. Who livest and reignest
world, without end. Amen.
STABAT MATER
At the Cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last! Through her heart His sorrows sharing,
All His bitter anguish bearing,
Lo, the piercing sword had passed. 0 how sad and sore distressed
Now was she, the Mother Blessed
Of the sole-begotten One. Who could mark, from tears refraining,
Christ's dear Mother uncomplaining,
In so great a sorrow bowed? Who, unmoved, behold her languish
Underneath His Cross of anguish,
'Mid the fierce, unpitying crowd? Fount of Love and holy sorrow,
Mother, may my spirit borrow
Somewhat of thy woe profound!
Unto Christ, with pure emotion,
Raise my contrite heart's devotion,
Love to read in every wound. Those five wounds on Jesus smitten,
Mother, in my heart be written,
Deep as in thine own they be! Thus inflamed with pure affection
In the Virgin's Son protection
May I at the judgment find. When in death my limbs are failing,
Let Thy Mother's prayer prevailing
Lift me, Jesus, to Thy throne; To my parting soul be given
Entrance through the gate of heaven;
There confess me for Thine own. Amen. TO ST. JOSEPH
0 Blessed Joseph, who didst breathe thy last breath in the fond embrace of Jesus and of Mary;
when death shall be closing my course of life,
come, holy father, with Jesus and Mary, to aid
Me, and obtain for me the only solace which I ask
for in that hour, to die encircled by their holy
arms. Into your sacred hands, living and dying,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I commend my soul! Amen.
TO ST. STANISLAUS
My most kindly and most mighty patron, St.
Stanislaus, thou angel of purity and seraph of
charity, I rejoice with thee for thine exceedingly
happy death—a death occasioned by the ardor of
thy desire to contemplate Mary on the feast of
her Assumption and caused by the abundance of
thy love for her. I give thanks to Mary for
being willing to accomplish thy desires; and I
pray thee, gracious Saint, by the merits of thy
happy death, be thou my patron and protector at
the hour of death. 0 intercede with Mary for
me, and obtain for me a death, if not so happy as
thine, at least calm and peaceful, under the protection of Mary, my advocate and under thy help,
my special Patron! Amen.
Mary with her loving Son
Bless us, each and every one! |
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