LORD, SUFFER US NOT TO BE CONTENT WITH MERE COMPASSION

O LORD Jesus! After contemplating Thy features, disfigured by grief; after meditating upon Thy Passion with compunction and love, how can our hearts fail to be inflamed with a holy hatred of sin, which even now outrages Thine Adorable Face? Lord, suffer us not to be content with mere compassion, but give us grace so closely to follow Thee on this new Calvary, that the opprobrium destined for Thee may fall upon us, O Jesus; that thus we may have a share, small though it be, in the expiation of sin. Amen.