V. O God, come to my assistance. R. O Lord make haste to help me. V. Glory be▾ to the Father, etc. First Word: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. V. We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee. R. Because by thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, there by thy pains to pay the penalty of my sins, and didst open thy divine mouth to obtain for me the pardon of them from Eternal Justice; O Jesus, pity all the faithful who are now in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood shed for our salvation, vouchsafe unto us all such lively sorrow for our sins that at our death we may breathe forth our souls into the bosom of thy infinite mercy. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us. My God, I believe in Thee, I hope in Thee, I love Thee. I repent of my sins, because by them I have offended Thee. Second Word: This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise. V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and with such readiness and bounty didst respond to the faith of the good thief, who in thy humiliations acknowledged Thee to be the Son of God, and didst assure unto him the Paradise prepared for him; oh, pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merit of thy most Precious Blood, wake up in our souls such firm and steadfast faith as shall never waver at any suggestion of the evil one; that so we also may obtain the prize of holy Paradise. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Third Word: Behold thy Mother! Behold thy Son. V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and, unmindful of thine own sorrows, didst leave us thy own most holy Mother as the pledge of thy love, that through her intercession we might seek Thee with confidence in our greatest straits; have pity on all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the inward martyrdom of thy dear Mother, quicken in our hearts a firm hope in the infinite merits of thine own most Precious Blood, that so we may escape the sentence of eternal death, which we have merited by our sins. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. V. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Fourth Word: My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and, whilst suffering after suffering was heaped upon Thee, with all thy bodily pain didst bear with infinite patience the most afflicting desolation of spirit, being forsaken by thine Eternal Father; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, grant us all thy grace, that we may suffer with patience the pain and anguish of our last agony, and so, joining our pains with thine, be made partakers of thy glory in Paradise. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. V. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Fifth Word: I thirst. V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and who, insatiable in thy thirst for insults and sufferings, didst will yet more and more to suffer, that all men might be saved, showing thereby that all the torrent of thy Passion was not enough to quench the thirst of thy most loving Heart; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, kindle in our hearts such fire of charity as may make them burn to be made one with Thee for all eternity. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. V. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Sixth Word: It is consummated. V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and from this pulpit of truth didst announce that the work of our redemption was finished—that work through which, from children of wrath and perdition, we become God's children and the heirs of heaven; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, detach us wholly from the world and from ourselves, and at the moment of our agony grant us grace to offer Thee with all our hearts the sacrifice of our life, in expiation for our sins. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. V. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Seventh Word: Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit. V. We adore Thee, etc. Jesus, my love! who for love of me didst hang in agony upon the Cross, and who in accomplishment of the great sacrifice didst accept the will of thine Eternal Father, commending thy spirit into his hands, and so didst bow thy head and die; pity all the faithful who are in their last agony, and pity me when I too shall be in mine. By the merits of thy most Precious Blood, give us in our agony an entire conformity to thy divine will, that ready to live or die as it please Thee, we may desire nothing so much as that thine adorable will may ever find its full accomplishment in us. Gloria Patri▾, thrice. V. Have mercy, etc. My God, etc. Prayer to the Holy Virgin, Mother of Sorrows. Most Holy Mother of sorrows, by that intense martyrdom which thou didst suffer at the foot of the Cross during the three hours of the agony of Jesus, deign to aid us all, children of thy sorrows, in our last agony, that by thy prayers we may pass from our bed of death to adorn thy crown in Paradise. Ave Maria▾, thrice. Mother of mercy, Mother of grace, Mary, help a fallen race; Shield us when the foe is nigh, And receive us when we die. V. From sudden and unprepared death, R. Deliver us, O Lord. V. From the snares of the devil, R. Deliver us, O Lord. V. From everlasting death, R. Deliver us, O Lord. Let us pray. God, who for the salvation of the human race hast, in the most bitter death of thy Son, made for us both an example and a refuge; grant, we beseech Thee, that in the last peril, at the hour of our death, we may merit to obtain the full effect of his great charity, and be made partakers of our Redeemer's glory. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. End with the three ejaculations, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul with you in peace.