PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH.

Nor for the fear of endless pains below ,­Which those who love thee not must undergo, For me, and such as me, thou once did'st bear The ignominious cross, the nails, the spear; A thorny crown transpierced thy sacred brow, What bloody sweats from every member flow! For me in torture thou resign'st thy breath, Nail'd to the cross, and savd'st me by thy death: Say, can these sufferings fail my heart to move? What but thyself can now deserve my love? Such as then was, and is thy love to me, Such is, and shall be still, my love to thee. Thy love, O Jesus, may I ever sing,

O God of love, kind parent, dearest king!

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Amen.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH.

The object of this association is to assist with alms and prayers, the missionaries of the Church in foreign countries. The prayers are a Pater and Ave each day. It will suffice to say for this intention the Pater and Are of the morning and evening prayers, and to add the invoeation, " St. Francis Xavier, pray for us."

The indulgences applicable to the souls in purgatory, are 100 days each time that the pre­scribed prayers, with a contrite heart, shall be said, or a donation to the missions, or any other charitable work performed, and a plenary one, on the feasts of the Finding of the Cross, of St. Francis Xavier, or any day within their octaves; or on any day once a month, provided the prayers be said, and the usual conditions complied with.