O Saviour Christ, who on the cross, and by virtue of the cross, didst accept the faith of the penitent thief and assure him of a place with thee in paradise: Remember us too, O Lord, unworthy as we are, and open to us the kingdom of thy grace, that hereafter we may be with thee in the kingdom of thy glory, where thou livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.