Through the oblation thou didst make of thyself to thine eternal Father, when in the temple thou wert acknowledged by Simeon and Anne, and ransomed with a pair of doves by thy poor Virgin Mother, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy flight into Egypt to avoid the cruelty of king Herod, and all thou didst there suffer with thy blessed Mother and St. Joseph, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy return from thence to Nazareth, and the obedience thou didst there pay to thy parents, _Have mercy upon us._ {241} Through thy being lost by thy parents in Jerusalem, where thou wert again found by them, after three days' search, sitting in the temple in the midst of the doctors, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the sacred and hidden life thou didst lead in Nazareth, with holy Mary and Joseph, from the twelfth to the thirtieth year of thine age, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy humble reception of baptism in the river Jordan by the hands of St. John, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy forty days' fast in the desert, where thou didst obtain repeated victories over the three temptations of the devil, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy first miracle of changing water into wine at the marriage feast of Cana, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the zeal which thou didst show for the honour of thy eternal Father, in casting the buyers and sellers out of the temple, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy condescending to discourse with the Samaritan woman sitting at the fountain. _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy excessive charity in healing the young man of Capharnaum, Simon Peter's mother-in-law, and a multitude of other infirm persons, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the power thou didst manifest in appeasing the tempest at sea, walking on the water, and enabling St. Peter to do so likewise, _Have mercy upon us._ {242} Through thy efficacious calling of Peter, Andrew, James, and John, from their boats, and Matthew from the receipt of custom, to follow thee, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the choice of thy twelve apostles, and the divine sermon thou didst deliver to them on the Mount, in which is exhibited the model of a perfect Christian life, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the mercy thou didst show to the penitent Magdalen, preferring her to the Pharisee, and pardoning her sins, _Have mercy upon us._ Through the sending of the apostles to preach thy gospel to the people, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy miraculous feeding of five thousand persons with five loaves of bread, and four thousand with seven loaves, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy appointment of Peter to be the rock on which thou wouldst build thy church, for his having confessed thee to be Christ the Son of the living God, _Have mercy upon us._ Through thy glorious transfiguration on Mount Thabor, in the presence of three of thy disciples, _Have mercy upon us._