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discipulus, recubans in sinu tno, satiari promeruit : quesumus ergo, ut, morti- ficatis membris nostris, tuis semper mereamur inhzerere vestigiis : ué intercessu hn- jus sancti Joannis, ita nos ignis amoris tui concremet, et absumat, qualiter bene- placitum nos tibi in toto holocaustum efficiat.


lovedst above the rest, de- served to be filled, when lean- ing on thy Breast : we, there- fore, humbly besecch thee, that our senses being mortified, we may deserve to walk, at all times, in thy footsteps: that thus, by the intercession of this thy holy disciple John, the fire of thy love may so burn and consume us, as to make us, in all things, a holo- eaust well-pleasing unto thee.

We find, also, this other prayer, in the Missal of the same Gothic Liturgy.

PRAYER,

Vide, vide, Deus, quibus gravati delictis obruimur ; qualiterque nobis ipsi quo- tidie efficimur causa veneni et pena supplich, dum cum quotidiano carnis nos- tre veneno polluimur, et de reparatione melioris vite nullo modo cogitamus. Sed quia certum est quod hoe videas, qui semper es cle- mens; et ideo per confes- sionem nos ad te redituros exspectas, ideo suggcrimus, ut Apostolo tuo Joanne in- tercedente ; qui invocato nomine tuo lethale ebibens virus, non solum ipse eva- sit, sed ctiam alios ex eodem extinctos populo suscitavit. Procul a nobis efficias et in- centivam carnis nostree Itbi- dinem, ct virus persuasionis hostis antiqui, ut fide te co- lentes, sicut Joannem Apos- tolum non nocuit oblatum yerlenum, ita nos non noceat

See, sce, O God, the sins whereby we are weighed down, and how we daily create to oursclves the poison that de- stroys and the pain that pu- nishes, inasmuch as we are each day infected with the poison of the deeds of our flesh, yet give we no thought to the amending our lives. But, whereas faith teaches us that thou seest our sins, and, be- eause thou art merciful, thou awaitest us that we return to thee by humble confession ; therefore, do we beg the in- tercession of J ohn, thine Apos- tle, who having drunk a deadly poison, not only, by the invocation of thy name, escaped hurt himself, but raised them to life who had been poisoned by that same cup. By this his intercession, drive far from us both the lustful flames of our own flesh, and the poison of the old

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