I firmly believe all the sacred truths thy church believes and teaches, because thou hast revealed them. And, by the assistance of thy holy grace, I am resolved to live and die in the communion of this thy church.

Relying on thy goodness, power, and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ thy Son, my only Redeemer, and by the intercession of his blessed mother and all the saints.

I love thee with my whole heart, and desire to love thee as the blessed do in heaven.

I also love my neighbour for thy sake, as myself. I forgive all those who have injured me, and ask pardon of all I have injured.

I renounce the devil with all his works, the world with all its pomps, the flesh with all its temptations.

I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ. Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

May the blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph our patrons, and all the saints, pray for us to our Lord, that we may be preserved this night from sin and all evil.

Blessed St. Michael, defend us in the day of battle, that we may not be lost at the dreadful judgment.

Oh my good angel whom God has appointed to be my guardian, enlighten, protect, defend, and govern me this night.

Vouchsafe, O Lord! to keep us this night without sin.

Have mercy on us. oh Lord! have mercy

on us.

Let thy mercy, oh Lord! be upon us, as our trust is in thee.

In thee, oh Lord! have we trusted; let us not be confounded for ever.

Visit, oh Lord, we beseech thee, this house and family, and drive far from them all snares of the enemy. Let thy holy angels dwell herein who may keep us in peace; and may thy blessing be always upon us; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

May the divine assistance remain always with us; and may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God. Amen.

AN ORPHAN'S PRAYER.

To be added to the above.

O God, who hast commanded us to honour our fathers and mothers, have mercy, I beseech thee, on the soul of my dear parent and forgive him his sins; and grant that I may see him again in the joys of eternal life: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

MORNING

PRAYERS FOR FAMILIES.

SUNDAY.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

TO HALLOW THE SUNDAY.

Be thou pleased, O Lord, in thy mercy to teach us how to spend this day. Lift up our hearts with the spirit of devotion. Of ourselves we are not able to form so much as one good thought. We neither know how to pray, nor what we ought most to pray for. Give us, therefore, thy holy spirit, which may both help our weakness and pray within us, for then our prayers will assuredly be acceptable to thee.

Teach us to prepare our minds for this holy duty. Speak first thyself to our hearts, that they may be ready and disposed to speak to thee. Open our lips that our mouths may declare thy praise. Thou listenest not to the prayers of the irreverent enable us, therefore, to rank amongst the happy number of those who worship thee in spirit and in truth, and to whose sighs thou lend

est a willing ear. "Create clean hearts in us, oh Lord, and renew right spirits within us."

Teach us, also, to ask for those things only that are agreeable to thee and useful to our salvation. Grant us the grace of truth and steadiness, that we may not carelessly ask for that best of all blessings-the enjoyment of thy protection; for to be blessed by thee is the great end and aim of all our prayers. It is in thy name, divine Saviour, that we are about to offer up our petitions: grant us the grace to fix our minds on thee at all times; but most of all at this morning's service, when we shall directly converse with thee.

Stop the fancies of our wandering hearts, the thoughts of our pre-occupied heads, and quell the power of our spiritual enemies who endeavour at such times to draw our minds from heaven by many vain imaginings. So enable us, with joy and thankfulness, to look on thee as our deliverer from the evils we have escaped, and as the giver of all the good we have received or can hope for. So teach us to see that thou thyself art our only good, and that all other things are but means ordained by thee to make us fix our minds on thee, to make us love thee more and more, and by loving thee to secure eternal happiness.

O Jesus, take up all our thoughts here, that, shunning vain and hurtful fancies, our souls may become worthy to behold thee face to face, in thy kingdom for ever.

May thy divine assistance remain always with us, and may the souls of the faithful departed through thy mercy rest in peace. Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God. Amen.

MONDAY.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

AN ACT OF RESIGNATION.

Almighty God, we again beseech thee, at the beginning of a new week, to take us entirely into thy holy keeping. We offer unto thee all the faculties of our souls and bodies: let the one be ever recollected in thee, and the other ever anxious to fulfil all the duties thou mayest impose upon it. Raise up our souls frequently, we beseech thee, to heaven, that we may never forget the end of all our pursuits in this life. Prevent us from neglecting the obligations of the situations in which thou hast placed us, but make us attend to them in obedience to thy divine will, that in every action we may feel that we are serving thee in the manner most agreeable to thy providence. Oh Lord, we cast all our cares and hopes on thee. Do thou protect thy servants, and prompt all our feelings, whether in distress or in pleasure.

Keep us, also, oh Lord, from all over anxiety in affairs of this life by reminding us of the short