THE SEVEN WORKS OF MERCY. CORPORAL. VISIT: give drink: give meat: redeem the VISIT slave: Clothe: tend the sick and lay the dead in grave. SPIRITUAL. Counsel rebuke: instruct in wisdom's way: Console: forgive: endure unmoved: and pray.. AN EUCHARISTIC PRAYER. THE HE things which I believe to have been done for me, which I call to remembrance, for which I return thanks, which I remember, of which I put Thee in remembrance, which I commemorate, which I offer, or which I pray Thee to offer; of these things make me a partaker, and apply them to me. By the things which Thou didst, and bearedst, Thy Oblation and Sacrifice, By Thy emptying Thyself, Thy humbling Thyself, Thy Conception, Thy Incarnation, By Thy Birth, Thy Circumcision, the first-fruits of Thy Blood, By Thy Baptism, Thy Fasting, By Thy Weariness, Thy Sleeplessness: By Thy Injuries, Thy Patience, Thy Endurance, By Thy apprehension as a thief, Thy bonds, By Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Golgotha, By Thy obedience unto Death, Thy endurance, even unto the Cross: Let my prayer ascend to Thee: Turn not away Thine Ear from us. As Thou didst deliver our Fathers, even so deliver us, O Lord! As Thou didst deliver Noah from the Flood, Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees, Isaac from being offered as a sacrifice, Lot from Sodom, Jacob from Laban and from Esau, Joseph from the calumnies of his mistress, from the prison, Job from his trials, Moses from Pharaoh, and from being stoned, Thy people from the Red Sea, and from Babylon, David from Saul, Goliath, Keilah, Ahitophel, Absalom, Doeg, Sheba, Elias from Jezebel, Hezekiah from Rabshakeh and from the sickness, Jeremiah from the pit, the Three Children from the furnace, Jonah from the belly of the whale, |