PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX En ego, o bone et dulcissime Iesu B ehold, o kind and most sweet Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight, and with most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst impress upon my heart lively sentiments of Faith, Hope and Charity, with true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment while with deep affection and grief of soul, I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five wounds, having before my eyes the words which David the prophet put on Thy lips concerning Thee, O good Jesus: “They have pierced my hands and feet, they have numbered all my bones.” Amen.
ORATIO ANTE COMMUNIONEM Prayer Before Communion D ó mine Iesu Christe, Fili Dei vívi, Qui ex voluntate Patris coóperante Spiritu Sancto, per moŕtem túam múndum vivificásti: libera me per hoc sacrosanctum Corpus et Sanguinem tuum ab ómnibus iniquitátibus meis et univeŕsis mális: et fac me tuis sémper in h aerére mandátis, et a te númquam separári pérmittas.