SHORT PRAYERS TO BE USED BY THE SICK
O God, the Father, who knowest our feeble frame, and who hast such pity toward us as an earthly parent has for his child: Have mercy on me. O God the Son, who didst Thyself take our infirmities and bear…
FOR SLEEP
O RIGHTEOUS Lord, Thou holdest mine eyes waking, and in the night season I take no rest. I seek sleep, which Thou givest Thy beloved, to ease my pains, and recruit my spirit: but I find it not. But O…
FOR A BLESSING ON THE USE OF MEDICINE
O MOST blessed and eternal Jesus, the great Physician of souls, the Sun of Right- eousness arising with healing in Thy wings, who disposest all things great and little to the glory of God, and the comfort of them that…
THANKSGIVING ON THE ABATEMENT OF PAIN
Blessed be Thy mercy, O my God, which pitieth me in my misery. As a father pitieth his children in the extremity of their pain, so hast Thou pitied me. Lord, my soul shall love Thee, and sing of Thy…
FOR ABATEMENT OF PAIN
O Lord, look upon mine adversity and misery, which call aloud to Thee for ease. O, most gracious God, my pains are extreme; have pity on me, and lighten them. In Thine anger, which I have deserved, remem- ber mercy,…
PRAYERS IN SICKNESS
AT THE BEGINNING OF SICKNESS. O Heavenly Father, who in Thy wisdom knowest what is best for me, if it seem good in Thy sight, speedily arrest this sickness and remove it from me, so that I may em- ploy…
DEVOTIONS IN SICKNESS
When langour and disease invade This trembling house of clay, ‘Tis sweet to look beyond my pain, And long to fly away: — Sweet to look back, and see my name In life’s fair book set down; Sweet to look…
COLLECT
O Lord God, who didst at first deliver Thy commandments from the mount which burned with fire, amid blackness, and darkness, and tempest, at which terrible sight even Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: we thank Thee that this…
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Exodus xx. 1-17. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me….
THE ATHANASIAN CREED
From the Fifth Century. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic faith…