Excerpt from The Sodalist's Vade Mecum: A Select Manual of Prayers and Hymns Lord, to bless thy holy name: cleanse my heart also from all vain, perverse and dis tracting thoughts enlighten my understanding, inflame my affections, that I may recite. This Office of the Blessed Vir gin Mary With worthy atten' tion and devotion, and may de serve to be heard in the sight of thy divine Majesty. Through Christ our Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.