043. 123. For Dying Persons.

123. For Dying Persons.

Ant. To this end Christ both died and rose and revived; that He might be Lord both of the dead and living. The souls of the faithful are in the hand of God: Who preserveth them that are true of heart.

ALMIGHTY GOD, with Whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prison; We humbly commend the soul of this Thy servant, our dear brother, into Thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator, and most merciful Saviour; most humbly beseeching Thee, that it may be precious in Thy sight. Wash it, we pray Thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the world; that whatever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty world, through the lusts of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done away, it may be presented pure and without spot before Thee. And teach us who survive, in this and other like daily spectacles of mortality, to see how frail and uncertain our own condition is; and so to num ber our days, that we may seriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wisdom, whilst we live here, which may in the end bring us to life everlasting; through the- merits of Jesus Christ Thine only Son our Lord. Amen.

Anglican, b.

O LORD JESUS, we beseech Thee by the anguish of Thy soul when Thou didst hang upon the Cross, to have mercy upon all those who fire at this moment near to death, and as Thou didst commend Thy Spirit into the hands of The Father, grant that they whom Thou hast vouch safed to make members of Thy mystical Body may be made partakers of the reconciliation which Thou hast effected, that their souls may enter into the rest which Thou hast obtained, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, One God, world without end.

Amen.