30/04/2026
DAILY DON BOSCO
The Exercise for a Happy Death:
Prayer of Pope Benedict XIII to obtain from God the grace of not dying an unprovided death:
Most merciful Lord Jesus, by Your agony and sweat of blood, by Your death,
deliver me, I beseech You, from a sudden and unprovided death.
Most benign Jesus, by Your cruel and shameful scourging and crowning with thorns, by Your cross and most bitter Passion, by Your goodness, I humbly beseech You not to let me die an unprovided death, or to pass away from this life without the Sacraments.
Most loving Jesus, my Lord and my God, by all Your sufferings and sorrows, by Your Precious Blood and most sacred Wounds; by those, Your last words, O my sweet Jesus, uttered on the Cross: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?" and by that loud cry, "Father, into Your Hands, I commend My Spirit," I most earnestly entreat You to not to cut me off suddenly from this life. Your Hands, 0 my Redeemer, have entirely made and fashioned me. I beg You to give me time for repentance and a happy death in Your grace, that I may love, praise and bless You with my whole Heart for all eternity.
My Lord Jesus Christ, by those five Wounds which You did receive on the Cross
for love of us: Help Your servants, whom You have redeemed by Your Precious Blood.
Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory:
O Almighty God, Who by the love which You bearest to men, have deigned to take our humanity, to live laboriously, to suffer a most cruel Passion, and finally to die on the Cross, I beseech You, by the infinite merits of purchased for us with Your Precious Blood, look mercifully on the torments which are endured by the holy souls in purgatory, who, having depareed this vale of tears in Your grace, still suffer in cruel flames, in order to atone for the sins for which they have not given full satisfaction to Your divine justice.
Accept, O merciful God, the prayers which I offer for them; deliver them from that dark prison, and call them to the glory of Heaven. I recommend to You the souls of my relations, of my benefactors, both spiritual and temporal, and in a special manner of those whom I may have been an occasion of sin by my bad example. Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Mercy,
Comfort of the Afflicted, intercede for those souls, that by Your powerful
intercession, they may be admitted to enjoy that Kingdom which is prepared for them.
We pray You, therefore, help Your servant;
Whom You have redeemed by Your most Precious Blood.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be..
Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord.
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace. Amen.
Prayer to St. Joseph to obtain the grace of a Happy Death:
Most glorious St. Joseph, blessed Spouse of Mary, You who have merited to be chosen as the guardian of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, and who, while embracing Him affectionately, did have a foretaste of the bliss of Heaven; I beseech You, obtain for me the full pardon of my sins and the grace of imitating Your virtues, so that I may walk in the path that leads to eternal happiness. As You had the privilege of having Jesus and Mary by Your deathbed, and in Their arms did breathe for Your soul, I earnestly pray You to protect me from my enemies in that last moment, so that, consoled by the sweet hope of coming to possess everlasting glory in Heaven with You, I may expire pronouncing: the most Holy Names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Amen.
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