Meditation (4): The Last Day of the Year

for

The Last Day of the Year

Let Us Adore Jesus on the Last Day and

Last Moment of his Life on Earth

0 JESUS, my Lord, I adore, love and glorify Thee in the last clay, the last hour and last minute of Thy mortal life on earth. I adore an that happened both inwardly and outwardly on that last day, meaning Thy last thoughts, acts, words and sufferings, Thy final use of the senses of Thy sacred body, and the last dispositions of Thy holy soul, to which I desire to unite myself now, with a view to the closing moment of my own life.

0 Divine Jesus, by the light of faith I behold Thee on that last day of Thy life, adoring and loving the Eternal Father infinitely. Thou dost give Him fitting thanks for all the graces imparted to Thee and, through Thee, to the whole world during the time of Thy sojourn on earth. Thou dost ask His pardon for all the sins of men, offering Thyself to Him to suffer the penance due to them. Thou dost think of me with love exceedingly great, with a most ardent desire to draw me to Thyself. Finally, Thou dost sacrifice Thy Precious Blood and Thy most noble life, for the glory of the Heavenly Father and for love of us. Blessed be Thou infinitely for all these inestimable graces.

0 Good Jesus, in honor of and in union with the love, humility and other holy dispositions with which Thou didst perform all the last actions of Thy life, I give Thee thanks for all the glory Thou didst render to the Eternal Father during Thy life on earth, for all the graces Thou hast bestowed upon me and all men this year and always, as well as for the graces Thou wouldst have lavished on me if I had not stood in Thy way.'

I most humbly beg Thy forgiveness for all the outrages and indignities Thou didst suffer on earth because of me, and for all the offenses I have committed against Thee this year. In satisfaction, I offer Thee all the honor and glory rendered to Thee, during Thy time on earth and during the past year, by Thy Eternal Father, the Holy Spirit, Thy Holy Mother, and by all the angels and saints. So, too, I offer myself to Thee to bear all the penance Thou mayest ordain for me in this world and in the next.

0 Jesus, most worthy of love, I adore Thy infinite thoughts and designs for me on the last day of Thy most precious life; and I give myself to Thee to do and suffer all Thou dost desire of me, for the fulfilment of these unfathomable designs. Grant that I may die a thousand times rather than hinder the operation of Thy loving Providence.

Let Us Offer Jesus the Last Day and

Last Moment of Our Life

0 Good Jesus, I offer to Thee the last day, the last hour and the last moment of my life and everything that may happen to me then outwardly and inwardly. I mean, my last thoughts, words, actions and sufferings, as well as the last use of my bodily senses and of the powers of my soul.

May it please Thee to grant that all these things may be consecrated to the honor of the last day, the last hour and last moment of Thy perfect life. May I die loving Thee with Thy holy love. May my being and my life be sacrificed and consumed for Thy glory, and may my last breath be an act of pure love of Thee. This is my intention, my desire, my expectation. 0 my Dear Jesus, relying as I do upon the excess of Thine infinite love, may it please Thee to grant, by Thy great mercy, that this may be so.

Special Days of the Year 349

Let Us Offer to the Blessed Virgin the Last Day

Of Our Life in Honor of the Last Day

Of her Life on Earth

0 Mother of Jesus, Mother of the Eternal and Immortal God made Man, I honor and venerate thee in the last hour and moment of thy life. I honor thy last thoughts, words and acts, and the last use made of the senses of thine immaculate body and of the powers of thy glorious soul. Especially I wish to honor the last act of love made by thy mother's heart for thy Most Beloved Son.

With all my heart I bless and thank thee, 0 holy Virgin, for all the glory thou didst render to God during thy spotless life, and for all the graces thou didst ever obtain from His bounty for me and for all men, especially during this year.

I beg thy forgiveness, 0 Mother of Mercy, for all the offenses thou didst suffer on earth, as well as for those I have committed this year against thee. To make satisfaction for these, I offer thee all the honor that has ever been accorded thee in heaven and on earth.

0 Mother of Fair Love, I offer thee the last day, the last hour and moment of my life, and all that shall take place in me at that last moment, in honor of the last moment, hour and day of thy life , and of all that occurred in thee on that day. Unite me, I beseech thee, with all the holy and divine dispositions of thy maternal heart and thy pure soul. Grant that, by thy merit and prayers, my last thoughts, words, acts and breaths may be consecrated to the honor of the last thought, words, acts and breaths, both of thy Son and of thyself. Grant that I may die loving Him with His holy love, and that I may be utterly consumed and sacrificed to His glory, and that my life may end with a last act of most pure love for Him.

0 angels and saints of Christ, pray that He may consummate this final grace for me, by His exceedingly great mercy and for love of Him.

Ejaculatory prayer:

"Blessed arc the dead who die in the Lord." Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur (Apoc. 14, 13)