The Rosary of the Seven Sorrows

O Saviour, my sole and only love! see me before thy divine presence, all confusion by reason of the many grievous injuries I have done thee. With my whole heart I ask thy pardon for them; repenting of them out of pure love for thee, and, at the thought of thy great goodness, hating and loathing them above every other evil of this life. Would that I had died a thousand times ere ever I had offended thee! but now I am most firmly resolved to lose my life a thousand times rather than to offend thee again.

My Jesus crucified, I firmly purpose to cleanse my soul forthwith by thy most precious blood, in the sacrament of penance. And thou, most tender Virgin, mother of mercy, and refuge of the sinner, do thou, by thy bitter pains, obtain for me the pardon of my sins.

Meanwhile, praying, in accordance with the wishes of so many holy Pontiffs, for the indulgences attached to this chaplet, I hope thereby to obtain remission of all the punishment due to my sins.

V. Pray for us, Virgin most sorrowful.

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that the most blessed Virgin Mary, thy mother, may intercede for us before the throne of thy mercy, now, and at the hour of our death, through whose most holy soul, in the hour of thine own passion, the sword of sorrow passed. Through thee, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, who livest and reignest, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen.