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Prayers to the Most Holy Heart of Mary |
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By a Carthusian |
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O thou purest, noblest, most beautiful of all virgns, Mary, most worthy Mother of God, through thy profound humility, thy most holy and perfect purity, thy most ardent charity; through all the virtues and graces with which the Lord has adorned thee, that He might make thee His most worthy Mother, I beseech thee to receive me and take me under thy protection. Make thy most tender and maternal heart vouschsafe to love me as its child, and notwithstanding my unworthiness, may it obtain for me grace to show my gratitude to thee by loving thee with a very pure and very holy love. |
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O most clement, most compassionat, most sweet, most loving Mother of God, Mother of grace and mercy, prostrate at thy feet, we beseech thee to remember now, O holy Virgin, thy very high dignity of Mother of God, that dignity through which thou hast become, for us poor sinners, the Gate of Heaven, the Ark of salvation in the deluge, the Ark of the covenant, the City of refuge, the Temple of the Holy Ghost, and the Queen of mercy, receive us and all the sinful and the sad, into thy friendship. May thy heart love, defend and shield us. Suffer us to be amongst those to whom thou grantest the inestimable privilege of being the servants, the slaves, the chosen ones of thy heart. O kind Mary, pour into our souls they most chaste and fervent love, and all the virtues of thy holy life, but especially thy humility, thy gentelness, thy purity, thy charity, and thy obedience. Most sweet Mary, obtain for us, a happy death; be then at ourside faithfully to protect us in our necessities and temptations. Obtain for us also from the mercy of Jesus, that through His merits and His sufferings, we may expiate here below all our sins and suffer all the punishments due to them, in order that, being set free and cleansed from all stain, we may at the hour of our death pass without delay from this life to eternal rest. |
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O most holy Virgin Mary, my Queen, I gladly resolve and promise to live in entire purity and chastity. But I know without the grace of thy Son, and thy protection, I am unable to do this. Help my weakness, restrain my evil inclinations, subdue my pride, and grant that I may with most fervent zeal accomplish all that will be pleasing to thy most pure heart, and that of thy Son, Whom thou so greatly lovest. May I never resist the commands or the least wishes of these two amiable Hearts, but, in all things and always, act in conformity with their will. May I ever devote myself to their love and be wholly spent in their service, honor and glory. O holy Mother, in order that I may become less unworthy of thy love and that of thy Son, give me, I implore with thee, true and very deep humility, a burning love, a very ready obedience, with simplicity, chastity, and perseverance. |
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O Lord Jesus, my God, I give thee thanks for Thy boundless love, and for all the favors bestowed upon the Angels and man, and upon the whole world, from the noblest and worthiest of all Thy creatures, the most holy Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, down to me the most unworthy of all, a vile and comptemtible worm of earth, unfit to appear before Thee on account of my sins and ingratitude.
Be thou forever blesse, O infinately good Jesus, Who has from all eternity chosen Mary, this matchles Virgin, to be Thy Mother! Thou madest her wholly immaculate, Thou didst preserve her from all sin. Thou didst prepare and possess her soul, and adorn it with the fullness of all virtues and all graces. Thou was conceived in her womb; she is Thy Mother. Thou wast nourished at her holy breast. Thou didst will that she should be present at Thy preaching and at the sufferings of Thy Passion and death. Thou didst allow her to take part in our redemption. And now that she has been taken up to Heaven in body and soul, and is crowned with very great glor, Thou givest her to us, to be our advocate, the Queen of mercy, and our Mother. Praise, glory and honr be to Thee forever for all these benefits! Most sweet Jesus, I offer Thee the heart of Mary and her merits, and through her I comment myself to Thy most kind Heart.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Mary, may I be all thine and thou all mine! Keep me, guide me, deliver me, preserve me from all sin, from all harm, from all danger, and remove from me everything that might come between my soul and God. |
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O most noble, most pure, most admirable, most glorious, most worthy Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, most amiable and most sweet Virgin Mary! From my inmost heart I salute thee as many times as are drops of water in the sea, stars in the firmament, Angels in the heavens, leaves on the trees and blades of grass on the earth. I salute thee through the Heart of thy beloved Son, in union with the love He has for thee. I recomment myself to thee, and give myself to thee. I would be thy child. Receive me, I beseech thee, and obtain from our Lord that I may be all thine. After God, be all to me, my Queen, my joy, my crown, my most kind and most devoted Mother! Amen. |
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O Mary, my Queen, most worthy Mother of God, O most humble, most merciful Virgin of virgins, most glorious Empress of the Angels, most holy Queen of all Saints, Treasury of the Holy Trinity, sure Refuge of sinners! In union with the love of the Angels and Saints for thee, in my own name, in that of my friends and of all the faithful, I offer thee my salutations, through the most gentle Heart of Jesus Christ, the son of God and thy Son. I rejoice at thy greatness, and with thee I thank God for all the graces thou hast received from Him and for all those that He distributes and will distribute by thy hands. Through thy Immaculate Conception, through the ineffable love and the unspeakable sorrows of thy pure heart, through thy more than maternal tenderness towards us, receive us with kindness, repair our faults, supply for our ommissions; and if we perform any good works, join them to thy merits, place them in thy heart, and thus present them to the Heart of Thy Son. Amen. |
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Sub Tuum Praesidium
Confugimus
Sancta Dei Genitrix |
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Sub tuum praesidium
confugimus,
Sancta Dei Genetrix.
Nostras deprecationes ne despicias
in necessitatibus nostris,
sed a periculis cunctis
libera nos semper,
Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.
Amen.
We fly to thy patronage,
O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions
in our necessities,
but deliver us always
from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen. |
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