Aspiration Before Prayer
Preces Gertrudianae, compiled by Thomas Alder Pope, 1861Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | Preces Gertrudianae: Prayers of St Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of The Order of St. Benedict. |
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| Imprint | LONDON, BURNS AND LAMBERT, 1861 |
| Pages | pp. 6–7 |
| Scan | leaf 18, leaf 19 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
The Bedford Master, Pentecost, book of hours, about 1420. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Our Lord directed St. Mechtilde to say the following prayer whenever she went into choir, or said the divine office or other prayer; assuring her that she might securely rely on the mercy of God that no prayer thus begun should fail of its effect.
O MOST Holy Father, in union with the love of thy well-beloved Son, I commend my spirit to thee.