Lord, my Creator and Redeemer, in a spirit of adoration, I accept the sentence of death that you have decreed for me.
I intend to die as a devout child of the Church and to go into eternity with the best dispositions of faith, hope, charity, and sorrow for my sins.
I hope to renew, at least mentally, the baptismal promises and religious vows.
In reparation for my sins and to better merit heaven, I offer you, Lord, all the circumstances, even the most painful, that will accompany my passage to eternity.
I invoke the great patrons of a happy death, from whom I hope to receive merciful assistance: Jesus Crucified, with whom I intend to pronounce the words: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; our Mother Mary, that she may pray for “us sinners now and at the hour of our death”; and St. Joseph, that he may obtain for me a holy life so as to merit a death similar to his.
Agonizing Jesus, sorrowful Mary, St. Joseph, I ask you for these graces:
A good life in faithful observance of the commandments and of all the duties of my state in life, which assures me of a holy death; on this my eternity depends.
The gift to receive, in the event of a serious sickness, the sacraments of Reconciliation, the Anointing of the Sick, Viaticum, and to obtain the plenary indulgence.
Correspondence to my vocation, according to the gifts I have received, that my life may render the maximum fruit for the glory of God and my eternal happiness.
Daily prayer, needed by everyone for salvation; in particular, devout participation in the Liturgy and frequent reception of the sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist.
Jesus Master, I believe.
Jesus Master, I hope.
Jesus Master, I love you.
Jesus Master, I invoke your mercy.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.