Bless, O Lord, all our nurseries of piety and schools of learning, that they may devote all their studies to thy glory. Have mercy on all that are in affliction: remember the poor and needy, the widow and fatherless, the friendless and oppressed: heal the sick and languishing, give them a sanctified use of thy rod, and when thou seest it expedient for them, receive them into the number of thy departed saints, and with them into thine everlasting kingdom. O my God, I praise thee for thy continual preservation of me, for thy fatherly protection over me this day. (――――)¹. For all the comforts with which thou surroundest me, spiritual and temporal; particularly for leave now to pray unto thee. O accept the poor services, pardon the sinfulness of this and all my holy duties, and bless me, my friends and relations, my benefactors and mine enemies, (this night and ever) with the blessings of thy children. ¹ Here mention the particulars you would pray for. These my prayers, O most merciful Father, vouchsafe to hear, through the mediation of _Jesus Christ_ our Redeemer, who with thee and the Holy Ghost is worshipped and glorified, in all churches of the saints, one God blessed for ever! * * * * * THURSDAY MORNING. O ETERNAL God, my Sovereign Lord, I acknowledge all I am, all I have is thine. O give me such a sense of thy infinite goodness, that I may return to thee all possible love and obedience. I humbly and heartily thank thee for all the favours thou hast bestow’d upon me; for creating me after thine own image, for thy daily preserving me by thy good providence, for redeeming me by the death of thy blessed Son, and for the assistance of thy holy Spirit: for causing me to be born in a Christian country, for blessing me with plentiful means of salvation, with religious parents and friends, and frequent returns of thy ever blessed sacrament. I also thank thee for all thy temporal blessings; for the preservation of me this night, (――――)¹ for my health, strength, food, raiment, and all the comforts and necessaries of life. O may I always delight to _praise thy holy name_, and, above all thy benefits, love thee my great benefactor. ¹ Here mention the particulars you would pray for. And, O Father of mercies, shut not up thy bowels of compassion towards me a vile and miserable sinner; despise not the work of thine own hands, the purchase of thy Son’s blood. For his sake I most humbly implore forgiveness of all my sins. _Lo, I come now, to do thy will alone_; and am resolved by thy assistance, to have no longer any choice of my own, but with singleness of heart to obey thy good pleasure: _Father not my will, but thine be done, in all my thoughts, words, and actions_!