t of the world. I pray not that thou shouldst
take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from
the evil. Sanctify them through the truth; thy word is truth. As
thou hast sent me into the world I have also sent them into the
world, and for their sake I sanctify myself that they may
themselves be sanctified in the truth; and neither pray I for
these alone, but for all those who shall believe on me through
their words, that we all may be one, and that the world may know
that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them as thou hast
loved me. I have made known unto them thy name, that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.'

PRAYER.

"Almighty, most high and sovereign God, holy Father, righteous
Lord, King of heaven and earth, we give thee thanks for thine
own sake, in that by thy holy will, and by thine only Son and
thy Holy Spirit thou hast created all things spiritual and
corporeal, and that after having made us in thine image and
after thy likeness, thou didst place us in that paradise which
we lost by our sin. And we give thee thanks because after having
created us by thy Son, by that love which is thine, and which
thou hast had for us, thou hast made him to be born very God and
very man of the glorious and blessed Mary, ever Virgin, and
because by his cross, his blood, and his death thou hast willed
to ransom us poor captives. And we give thee thanks that thy Son
is to return in his glorious majesty to send to eternal fire the
accursed ones, those who have not repented and have not known
thee; and to say to those who have known and adored thee and
served thee by repentance, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from before the foundation
of the world.' And since we, wretched and sinful, are not worthy
to name thee, we humbly ask our Lord Jesus Christ, thy
well-beloved Son, in whom thou art well pleased, that he may
give thee thanks for everything; and also the Holy Spirit, the
Paraclete, as it may please thee and them; for this we
supplicate him who has all power with thee, and by whom thou
hast done such great things for us. Alleluia.

"And we pray the glorious Mother, the blessed Mary, ever Virgin,
St. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and all the choir of blessed
Spirits, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thr