Our Morning Offering – 28 July – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B (and still in the Month of Precious Blood)
Wash Me With Your Precious Blood By St Peter Canisius (1521-1597) Doctor of the Church
See, O merciful God, what return I, Your thankless servant, have made for the innumerable favours and the wonderful love You have shown me! What wrongs I have done, what good left undone! Wash away, I beg You, these faults and stains with Your precious blood, most kind Redeemer, and make up for my poverty by applying Your merits. Give me the protection I need, to amend my life. I give and surrender myself wholly to You, and offer You all I possess, with the prayer, that You bestow Your grace on me, so that I may be able to devote and employ all the thinking power of my mind and the strength of my body, in Your holy service, who are God blessed forever and ever. Amen
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