Prayer to the Trinity During Mass
Adore the Trinity and offer your life in praise and gratitude.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
I ADORE thee, O glorious, bright, and ever-peaceful Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one God, my Hope, my Light, my Rest, my Joy, my Life, my All in all.
I give thee thanks, O Lord, that thou hast created me after thine own image, that thou hast borne with me all my life long to this day notwithstanding my sins, with such long-suffering mercy, that thou hast rescued me from so many dangers, and encompassed me with innumerable blessings.
O compassionate Father, I offer thee the most holy Incarnation, Nativity, Life, Passion and Death, Resurrection and Ascension of thy only and well-beloved Son Jesus Christ in full expiation, propitiation, and satisfaction for all my sins and negligences, and also for the sins of all mankind. I offer thee all the toils, the afflictions, the outrages, the scorn, the blows and stripes, the woes and bitter anguish, wherewith he was overwhelmed. I offer thee the most precious Blood which he shed. I offer thee his humility, his patience, his charity, and his spotless innocence.
O Father, O Son, O Holy Ghost, my God who dwellest within me, grant me that I may be unable to think any thing, to will any thing, to speak any thing, to do any thing, but what is pleasing in thy sight. Grant that I and all men may ever do thy holy will. Make us well-pleasing to thee, and one with thee, so that thy delight may be to dwell in us. It is my bounden duty to praise thee, O Lord, and it is my most eager longing desire; but, inasmuch as I can never praise thee worthily, I implore thee that thou wouldst deign. to offer to thyself most perfect praise within my heart, so that thou mayest sanctify for thyself, and accept as most grateful praise and adoration, every breath I draw, whether I wake or whether I sleep.
Glory be to the Father, &c.