The Altar Servers' Handbook

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people. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (From the Liturgy of St. Basil).

      NOTES WRITTEN BY SAINT THOMAS MORE on the margin of the Newnham Book of Hours, written after his troubles began and he had resigned his position at Court.

Give me Thy grace, Good God,
To see the world at nought;
To set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the words       of men's mouths;
To be content to be solitary;
Not to long for worldly company;
Little by little utterly to cast off the world,
And rid my mind of all besides Thee;
Not to long to hear any worldly things,
But that the hearing of worldly fantasies may be to me dis-       pleasing;
Gladly to be thinking og God;
Piteously to call for His help;
To lean unto the comfort of God;
Busily to labour to love Him;
To know my own vileness and wretchedness;
To humble and abase myself under the mighty hand of God;
To bewail my past sins;
For the purging of them patiently to suffer adversity;
Gladly to bear my purgatory here;
To be joyful in tribulations;
To walk in the narrow way that leadeth to life;
To bear the cross with Christ;
To have the last things in remembrance;
To have ever before mine eye my death that is ever at hand;
To make death no stranger to me;

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