DEUS, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti, da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de ejus semper consolatione gaudere. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate ejusdem Spiritus Sancti Deus. Per omnia sæcula sæculorum. Amen. Give them life with thee on high, Give them joys which never end. Amen. Ant. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of thy love. V. Send forth thy Spirit, and our hearts will be regenerated. Ry. And thou shalt renew the face of the earth. LET US PRAY. O GOD, who hast taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that we may, by the gift of the same Spirit, be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in his consolations. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, God; world without end. Amen. The Sacrament of Extreme Unction. INSTRUCTIONS AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE SICK. OF this holy Sacrament St. James, the Apostle, thus speaks: "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the Priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him." (James v. 14, 15.) The priest in administering this sacrament anoints the five principal senses of the body: the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, the lips, the hands, and the feet, because these may have been employed during life in offending God. At each anointing he pronounces these words: "May the Lord by this holy anointing, and by his own most tender mercy, pardon thee, whatever sin thou hast committed by thy sight, hearing, &c." The sick person should endeavour to prepare himself to receive this sacrament by acts of sincere contrition for all his sins, by great confidence in the tender mercies of his Redeemer, and by a perfect resignation of himself to the holy will of God. If you are attacked by any serious illness, let your first care be to send for your spiritual physician, and settle the state of your soul. This is much better done in the beginning of sickness than afterwards, when the strength of fever, or the quality of the remedies may render a person absolutely unfit for so great a work. Sickness is often sent as a punishment |