Devotion for the Dying
Devotion To The Agonizing Heart Of Jesus
Every day an average of 290,000 persons die, are judged and begin an eternity of endless bliss or hopeless misery. Alas! it is to be feared that vast is the number of the dying who are in mortal sin, yet to be saved they need but the grace of a good confession or of an act of perfect contrition. Will you refuse to beg this grace for them from the Agonizing Heart of Jesus? Do it now tomorrow it will be too late to pray for those who are dying today!
PRAY FOR THE DYING-----Souls
were purchased with the Blood of Christ, 290,000 will be judged today.
Do not let the demons drag them into Hell. As you love Jesus, save them
and bring joy to His Sacred Heart.
PRAY FOR THE DYING-----Have
pity on the untold multitude of unBaptized children in danger of death;
ask for them the grace of Baptism, and for the just in agony-----the
grace of perseverance.
PRAY FOR THE DYING-----It
is continuing the work of Jesus on earth, saving souls, aye, it is
going
into the very jaws of death to snatch souls from Hell to give them to
Christ
for eternity.
PRAY FOR THE DYING-----Justice
demands it, if through your fault some souls have been lost, or are on
the way to perdition. Save the dying if you have been a stumbling block
to the living.
PRAY FOR THE DYING-----If
you save but one soul a day, in ten years you will give 3650 elect to
Heaven.
What a crown for eternity! In return for your charity, consider the
graces
you will receive in time and the reward in store for you in eternity
from
our dear Lord, Who died for these souls. Think of the eternal gratitude
of the loving Heart of Mary their Mother, of their Guardian Angels, and
of the redeemed souls themselves. How well they will plead your cause,
when your time comes to die. There is gratitude on earth, how much more
there must be in Heaven.
PRAY FOR THE DYING AND SPREAD
THIS DEVOTION-----It will be your
greatest consolation
in death and an assurance of a happy end; for it is easy to die after
praying
for the dying every day of one's life. "With the same measure that you
shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again." [Luke 6: 38]
MOST merciful Jesus, lover of souls, I pray Thee, by the agony of Thy most Sacred Heart and by the sorrows of Thine Immaculate Mother, wash in Thy Blood the sinners of the whole world who are now in their agony and are to die this day. Amen.
Heart of Jesus, once in agony, have mercy on the dying.
O ST. JOSEPH, Foster
Father of
Jesus Christ and true Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us
and
for the dying of today
[or tonight].
PRAYER TO THE HEART OF JESUS
O GENTLEST Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed
Sacrament,
ever consumed with burning love for the Poor captive
Souls in Purgatory,
have mercy on the Soul of Thy departed servant.
Be not severe in Thy judgment, but some drops of Thy Precious
Blood fall
upon him [or her], and send, O merciful Savior, Thy Angels
to conduct
him [or her] to a place of refreshment, light and peace.
Amen.
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