2. To recollect ourselves.
3. To invoke God's aid.
4. To unite ourselves with Christ.
5. (a) Christ our model in prayer.
(b) Our prayers to be offered through him.
(c) Church wishes this and practices it ever.
(d) Lives of saints show how they united with Christ in prayer.
(e) Remembrance of the sublime work we engage in.
(f) To propose general, special and particular intentions.


ART. III. AIDS DURING THE RECITATION OF THE HOURS.

(a) Suitable place.
(b) Respectful and devout attitude.
(c) Slow, deliberate pronunciation.
(d) Distractions.
(e) To apply the mind to what is read.
(f) To read without critical judgments.
(g) To think of Christ's Passion.
(h) To think of the presence of God and of our Angel Guardian.


ART. IV. AFTER SAYING THE OFFICE.

1. Thanks to God.
2. Ask his pardon for faults.
3. Say the _Sacro-sanctae_.
4. The Sacro-sanctae.