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Centre Prayer Card - Home Altar

This document contains several prayers asking God for forgiveness of sins and protection from sudden or unprepared death. The prayers acknowledge human fallibility and sinfulness, and ask God in his mercy to spare people from judgment and destruction so they have time for repentance. They recognize that God's forgiveness is the only hope of salvation.

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Centre Prayer Card - Home Altar

This document contains several prayers asking God for forgiveness of sins and protection from sudden or unprepared death. The prayers acknowledge human fallibility and sinfulness, and ask God in his mercy to spare people from judgment and destruction so they have time for repentance. They recognize that God's forgiveness is the only hope of salvation.

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H ear us, O God of our salvation, and issue not the

decree for the completion of our days before Thou


forgivest us our sins; and because penance avails
W e beseech Thee, Almighty God, graciously
incline Thine ear to the assembly of Thy
Church, and let Thy mercy to us anticipate
not in hell, and there is no room for amendment in Thine anger; for if Thou shouldst mark
the pit, therefore we humbly pray and beseech iniquities, there shall no creature be able to
Thee here on earth, that giving us time to pray for stand before Thee: but in that same admirable
pardon, Thou wouldst give us all forgiveness of our sins. charity whereby Thou didst create us, pardon us sinners,
Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. and destroy not the work of Thine own hands in an
unprepared death. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.
T ake away, merciful Lord, all errors from Thy faithful
people, avert from them the sudden destruction of the
wasting pestilence; and those whose wanderings Thou dost H ear our prayers, O Lord, and enter not into
judgment with Thy servants; for, knowing that
justly chastise, do Thou mercifully pity when corrected. there is no justice in us on which we can dare to
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. presume, we acknowledge no other
ANTIPHON
O holy God, holy and strong, holy and
merciful Saviour, deliver us not over to a
fount of mercy whereby we can be

S in no longer, O my soul; think


upon the sudden change from sin
to endless torments. There, in hell,
bitter death.
V: Lest, overtaken by the day of death, we seek
time for penance, and be unable to find it.
washed from our sins, delivered from
our infirmities, and especially from
unprepared death, but only Thou, O
penance is not accepted, and tears Lord. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
R: Hearken, O Lord, and have mercy on us; for

O
profit not. Turn, then, whilst thou hast
we have sinned against Thee. God, before whom every heart
time; cry out and say, Have mercy upon

W e beseech Thee, Almighty God, trembles and every conscience


me, O my God.
receive in Thy fatherly pity Thy is awed; show forth Thy mercy upon
ANTIPHON
people who flee unto Thee from Thine anger; us Thy suppliants, that we who trust

I n the midst of life we are in death;


but to whom can we look to be our
helper save Thee, O Lord, who art justly
that those who fear to be chastised by the rod
of Thy majesty through unprepared death,
may be made worthy to rejoice in Thy pardon.
not in the excellence of our own merit,
may never experience unprepared
death, but may receive Thy pardon.
angry with us because of our sins? Through our Lord Jesus Christ, &c. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.

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