Illustration: DUTCHMAN
The following Text is from AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM
Recommendation To One's Guardian Angel
For A Happy Hour Of Death.
My good Angel: I know not when or how I shall die. It is possible I may be
carried off suddenly, and that before my last sigh I may be deprived of all intelligence. Yet how many things I would wish to say to God on the threshold of Eternity. In the full freedom of my Will, today, I come to charge you to speak for me at that fearful moment. You will say to Him, then, O my good Angel:
That I wish to die in The Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, in which all the Saints
since Jesus Christ have died, and out of which there is no Salvation.
That I ask the Grace of sharing in the infinite merits of my Redeemer and that
I desire to die in pressing to my lips The Cross that was bathed in His Blood !
That I detest my sins because they displease Him, and that I pardon,
through love of Him, all my enemies, as I wish myself to be pardoned.
That I die willingly, because He orders it, and that I throw myself
with confidence into His adorable Heart, awaiting all His Mercy.
That, in my inexpressible desire to go to Heaven, I am disposed to
suffer everything it may please His Sovereign Justice to inflict on me.
That I love Him before all things, above all things, and for His own sake;
that I wish and hope to love Him, with The Elect, His Angels,
and The Blessed Mother, during all Eternity.
Do not refuse, O my Angel, to be my interpreter with God,
and to protest to Him that these are my sentiments and my Will.
Amen.
