Please pray for my brother, C

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Please pray for my brother, C., who makes scrupulous, unceasing efforts to live a strong Catholic life and to be the person he thinks God wants him to be. He studies scripture, attends mass under all circumstances, confesses his sins, prays, gives of his time and talents… but is so filled with anxiety and despair, and so lost in the negative that he is unable to experience joy or peace, or to feel the love of God.

Lord, may my brother learn to trust You in his heart, to know that he is good enough, and accept the grace that will allow him to feel Your peaceful presence.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavily laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light*.*
Mt 11:28-30
 
Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
God does not want him to be anxious and depressed. Has he talked to a priest about this? Ask the priest whether he should also talk to a psychological counselor or a doctor. There is at least some chance that he has depression, of the kind that a doctor can help. All help comes from God, even if He works through human hands.

I’ll pray for the help of Christ and His Mother.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the
fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
“I am no longer trying for perfection by my own efforts…but I only want the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith.” [Philippians 3:9]

On behalf of your brother
Wisdom of true conversion

Holy God, I know that Your love can free me from the self-imposed need to force my inclination and emotions into a pattern of love and virtue. Give me grace to strive faithfully, while trusting my efforts into Your care, allowing You to love me and to love others through me as You honour and glorify Yourself in me.

I do not seek to be ‘virtuous’ or ‘exemplary’. I seek to be to be Your living tabernacle. Let me not be ‘candle’, but part of Your light that dispels all darkness. Let me not be ‘wise’, but absorbed into Your wisdom and truth. Let me not be ‘peaceful’ or ‘trusting’, but resting faithfully in Your peace and joy. Let me not be ‘productive of good works’, rather, let me be actively responsive to every facet of Your love for me and for others, as vehicle of Your goodness for them.

I ask this true conversion of You, for “At night my soul longs for You and my spirit in me seeks for You.” [Isaiah 26:9]
 
In my weakness You are strength

Jesus, thank You for those who see my faults or misunderstand my motives and who thus reveal my need for conversion and healing. I repent my unworthiness, and ask that You offer me as gift to God in each broken moment restored.

Gather up my lost moments, Jesus! Cleanse and shape them with my sorrow merged with Your sacrifice. Burnish and set them with Your forgiveness, and illuminate them with Your love as treasures of witness, intercession, and atonement! Thus, make my flawed life into a gem of praise, service and delight for You in the Communion of Saints.
Praise to You, Jesus, who make treasure out of ordinary and fallen human beings!

“I live in a high and holy place, but I am also with the contrite and humbled spirit, to give the humble new life…I will heal and console him.” says the Lord God.” [Isaiah 57:15, 18]

“In my ‘little way every thing is most ordinary; all that I do, little souls must be able to do likewise. (Saint Therese of Lisieux) Her little way “is the way of Spiritual childhood…of trust and absolute self-surrender.”

Offering
Holy God, I offer You my abilities and achievements. I offer You my failures and deprivations, with my love that gutters and flares, and with my flickering insight. I offer You my faith and hope that repeatedly requires renewal. Along with my prayers and efforts to love You and others, I offer You the intercession and thanksgiving that I fail to make, and my inadequate service and worship.

I offer You everything, including what I am most reluctant to relinquish or to face—trusting that in Your loving-kindness You will deal with all these things to their best disposition. I ask that You will free me from anxiety regarding success or failure in my life or apprehension for my loved ones. I commit these to Your care.

I trust that Your Spirit will assume freedom to love and trust, to live and move in me. Then, as beautiful, vibrant witness and channel of You to each person that I encounter, or for whom I intercede, my life will worship You.

Grant me faith, constancy, hope and love, even where I feel none. Make me an overflowing chalice of Your love, a living tabernacle of Your presence, a powerhouse of prayer, and an open doorway into God for others. I may not hope in myself, Jesus, but I adore You and hope in You for my loved ones and for anyone You desire to draw into Your love through our lives.
 
***Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death
Amen.
 
Seeking God’s will

Our God, You see me anxious about discerning the right course, and then my subsequent doubts. I fear that if I misconstrue Your will, someone may be denied what You would delight to give through me. Bless them, supplying what my selfishness or confusion denies them.

I trust that whatever good I honestly attempt will be guided and transformed by You, regardless of my obvious failures. Perhaps when I die, I may discover that my present life hides the overflowing richness of Your love embracing others through my efforts and prayers.

Accept my gift of myself to You. Temper my faith and faithfulness in Your love within the events of my life. Burn away my sinfulness and apathy through daily responsibility and prayer. Heal my confusion and stress. Let everything for which You created me, be completely fulfilled. Worship and delight Yourself in my life.

Finding Christ’s peace

Jesus, You desire to give us peace! While on Earth, You blessed others with words of peace. In Scripture, in Liturgy, in the Sacraments, in the prayers and blessings of the Church, You constantly offer peace.

Yet, what is the peace that You offer? It is not ease and comfort, or wealth and success, for there were little of these in Your life. You offer example of God emptied of glory and possessing few of this world’s gifts or loyalty. Friends deserted You when things became difficult. Religious leaders betrayed their heritage by destroying You, who were so obviously the promised Messiah, though you wished them peace. You sacrificed Yourself for this unworthy humanity, You who are peace and salvation of humankind.

Please wean me from choice and habit that impedes witness of Your love. Grant me proper self-esteem but free me from self-indulgence in all its insidious forms. Grant me trust and gratitude to handle everything, whether joyful or sad, in light of Your Love for me. In this is found Your peace.

If I lack the peace of knowing that God is transforming me, then please give me the peace of trust that God will benefit others though me just as I am. I choose the peace of creative obedience to God’s will as the particular person I am created to be. Jesus, do not let me fail to fulfil Your wishes and dream for my life. Thank You.

“God, create a clean heart in me, put in me a new and constant spirit.” [Psalm 51:10] “Help me Yahweh my God; save me since You love me, and let them know that You have done it, that it was You, Yahweh, who did it.” [Psalm 109: 26-27]
 
Gospel virtues

Our God, please fulfil my desire to be the person You want me to be. Claim me for Yourself so that Your love triumphs over my sinful habits and selfish responses.

As I keep faith with Your Creation by proper care of my human needs, with Your grace, I want to abstain from unchristian attitudes and activities. I desire grace to attribute to each spiritual, mental, and physical gift and achievement, its rightful service, without pride, envy, or creation of artificial needs in self or in others.

Grant me a chaste heart that loves generously without subterfuge, sin, possessiveness or selfishness. Grant me to respect the goodness of Your Creation in others’ lives and mine, in chastity appropriate to my state and circumstance. Thus, my soul prepares for Your vision and already breathes Heaven’s life.

Let negative thoughts and imaginings never dominate even my darkest moments, for gloom demonstrates absence of faith and curtails Your expression of love in me. In place of self-doubt, please give me peaceful faith in Your will, so that I honestly accept my humanity, and trust You to win goodness out of failures and situations that appear hopeless.

In humility and obedience, I no longer have cause to be fearful or defensive. Pride and self-will evaporate before compassion for others. Doubt disappears before growing faith. Irritation and hasty judgement dissipate within generous patience and understanding. Loss and hurt quickly flow into acceptance of Your will and compassionate serving of others. Self-indulgence fades before reparation and appropriate self-discipline, to make me a channel of Your love to others.

With Your grace, I want to meet others joyfully, with unselfish love. I want to apply the kindliest interpretation to other’s intentions, regardless of appearance. I want to forgive gladly the instant offence occurs. I implore You to bless those who offend me as bounteously as You bless those who benefit me. I ask grace to face another’s negative behaviour with warmth and sympathetic kindness, and to fulfil another’s true needs cheerfully.

Behold me as I am, our God, with all that I would withhold from You and conceal from myself. Take me, God, with my faults along with the good already received of You. Have mercy and forgive me for all offence and failure. Let Your love flood over my lukewarmness. Use me as I am, and with each moment’s service convert me anew that I grow increasingly centred in You.

Our God, please hear my prayer and grant my desire to live in You even in my darkest times
 
Self made crosses

Merciful God, I want the burdens I carry be only those that You intend. Let self-made crosses no longer weaken me for genuine crosses that You permit! Lift from me those crosses that I construct out of fear, doubt or self-accusation. Free me of those I subconsciously build in desire for appreciation and love. Free me from crosses of mistaken sense of mission. I want to accomplish the mission that You intend for me.

Free me from the errors of trying to carry and solve others’ problems where it is only my task to offer understanding, prayer, and what help that I can actually offer. Otherwise, in sleeplessness and anguish, I carry a cross of impracticality and helplessness that leaves me worn out, aiding no one. Yet inspire me to undertake, powerfully and sensitively, any means of genuine assistance to others.

Help me to recognise my areas of personal weakness or scarring that otherwise lead me to behave in ways unhelpful to others and myself. Fill me with the Holy Spirit’s prayer for them.

Please give me wisdom, faith, and charity to overcome tendencies and habits that impede me from Your service. Thus I, unhindered, am impelled to You in everything, in cooperation with the graces You desire to flood through my being at every instant, however secretly. Then, I am free, and I rejoice! For by Your mercy alone, my life is centred in You God, in self no longer!

Conversion: Your way

Loving God, if You wish, You can cure and convert me instantly. All goodness comes from You, so any ‘merit’ of my life is already part of Your holiness. Therefore, so that no moment of my life is wasted in sin or emptiness, please transform me with Your holiness now, as a channel of grace to others and a delight to Yourself!

That You do not hasten to grant this prayer reminds me that You are God who creates in gradual progression, moulding Your masterpieces, no one like any other. You hold each creature in profound love that touches and moves each instant of life!

Help me to accept the quiet evolution of my life to wholeness as You seek my cooperation, while respecting my free will. Your wisdom neither transforms souls on demand nor coerces the unwilling person.

Like the greatest silversmith, Your love delicately forms each tiny second and each unique shape of holiness and wholeness in our lives. That is Your glory in us, to form us in our prayerful obedience to the fire of love and the sharp tools of effort and tribulation.

God please grant me patient faith to accept Your fashioning. Yet, if anyone can persuade You to purify and sanctify all in my life from this instant, please let it be so! If not, then grant me to continue to live in quiet faith and faithfulness.
 
Springtime garden

Our God, I have lived in the winter of selfishness, choked by weeds of discouragement. I have feared my betrayal of Your love and sacrifice for me. I have grieved for my offences against Your goodness and against other people. I have feared atrophy of my soul, and the deprivation of others whom You desire to love through me! Now I lift up my being in joyful thanksgiving.

As with a new Spring, let goodness grow in me, enriched with our Saviour’s merit and nurtured in faith, hope, Sacrament and prayer. Let Your Holy Spirit germinate in me the gifts of truth, wisdom, fortitude, understanding, counsel, and reverence, then, this garden that Your mercy forms out of wasteland, shall glorify You as it blossoms, fruits and scatters seed of witness and service.

Thus shall You, and anyone who enters the garden of my life, find richness of love, faith, joy, truth, gentleness, and peace. Let it be a haven, a refuge, a place of contemplation, a source of nourishment for others, a loving witness of Your love.

Life-of-my-garden, our God—come walk in the wonders that You have created, and rejoice! For I have lived in wintry emptiness, smothered by weeds of sin, discouragement and confusion. I have feared the betrayal of Your redemption in the wilderness of my life. I grieved for my offences to Your infinite goodness and mourned for my deprivation of souls whom You wished to serve through me, yet I was unable to change.

Now I am reclaimed by Your merciful Redemption. I lift my spirit in thanksgiving and love that perfumes this garden through all the changing seasons of my life.

Harvest
Beloved Jesus—from the compost of my sins, failures, faults and omissions please enrich the soil that nurtures the harvest that You prepare of my being and life—for Your delight, and for others’ benefit.
From the flower and fruit of all grace and good sprung from You within me, please bountifully glorify Yourself and bless all whose lives touch mine!

“Upon every person God loves, in order to bring them to God’s bliss, God imposes something that is not a defect in God’s sight, but is a reason why they are humbled and despised in this world, scorned, mocked and cast out. This God does to prevent the harm they would suffer from the pretence and vanities of this wretched life, to make ready their way to heaven and to the state of eternal happiness. For God says, ‘I shall tear you away from your vain affections and vicious pride. Then I shall gather you, and make you meek and mild, pure and holy by uniting you to Me’.” (Revelations to Julian of Norwich)

Some stuff I wrote myself when striving to seek holiness as your brother is.
 
Detachment
Loving God, how patiently You wait for moments in our lives when we seek Your grace, guidance and sovereignty, while confessing our sin and dependence. You prepare us for these moments, nurturing Your life in our daily events and activities, just as Jesus, through years of ordinary human endeavour, prayerfully prepared for His mission.

How unobtrusively You lead souls who reach out in faith! If we await blinding revelation, we may fail to hear Your quiet invitation in the events and encounters of life. Our kaleidoscopic thoughts, our bustling activity, our pride, our prejudices, our fears and our compromises easily deafen us. You behold the shrinking of our eternal destinies, of our part in Your plan. Have mercy upon us!

You foresee our self-deception with its lack of peace. You observe the complacency that stifles spiritual growth. You see the brevity of our pleasures and satisfactions, knowing our grief, loneliness, or boredom due to reluctance to centre life in God. You see how poor is our motivation, how incomplete is our repentance, how dim is our awareness, how subtle is our self-deception, how entrenched is our tenacity of opinion, prejudices and cherished attachments!

Regardless of how ordinary we are, the events of our lives are sanctified by love. Please convert and recreate us in childlike trust and self-giving. Free our ears truly to hear You, in Your Word, in our hearts, and in other persons. Enlighten us to comprehend with the light of Your truth, no longer through our prejudices. Let Your love flow through us in praise and gratitude to You, and in intercession and loving witness to others.

In fully desiring Your will in our lives, and living the fullness of Your love within ourselves for You and for other persons, we are at last truly alive.

“Oh my little mother, how I suffered! I could not open my heart to you, and it seemed you no longer knew me!” [As a postulant, Saint Therese was appointed ‘aid’ to her sister Pauline, Sister Agnes of Jesus.]
 
Self-denial

Jesus, my life is not always centred on You. Wincingly, I drag across the broken glass of trial and duty, inspired by Your willingness to accept responsibilities, regardless of joy or calamity. For in the self-denial of serving others we are freed from selfishness and sin.

You died agonisingly for each person, obeying God’s will despite Your human vulnerability and dread. I stand humbly at the foot of Your salvation, its totality of giving shaming my reluctance to sacrifice self wholly to You. I offer my own will, constrained though it is by cowardice and compromise.

Jesus, how can I carry the cross that Your true followers must bear? How shall I emerge to embrace true commitment in ministry of others? You who are Son of God, sweated blood in contemplation of such abandonment of self. You asked the Father that you might forgo such a burden.

Were not Your divine origin, Your innocence, and Your sacred prayer, enough to save and sanctify us? Yet in anguished awareness deeper than mine or any other’s, You complied humbly with the Father’s will to sever our bonds of unlove, with the shattering of every fibre of Your humanity. In Your example, therefore, I place my trust and my cause for others’ and my salvation and blessing. I give myself to You, trying to bargain, raising reluctant, pleading eyes to Your thorn-encircled face: “Not this, Lord! I cannot face this loss, that difficulty…”

Dear Jesus, I appeal to You for grace to relinquish my fearful grip, releasing to You the full extent of my bondage. Will You lift this burden with its splinters of lack of charity and trust? I offer the grief of a soul betrayed by itself, in plea for Your forgiveness, healing and for my freedom to love You above all and others as myself, in harmony with Your will.

You know me in my human vulnerability and perfidy, my striving and hope—for You love each person with such depth that I flickeringly suspect its intensity and intimacy. If only I believed, understood and reciprocated! Please accept the teared jewel of this fragile communion of my desire with Yours. Please so draw me into Your love that it is revealed through me in glory and wonder!

You emptied Yourself to become subject to human limitation and suffering. You struggled against ignorance and selfishness, against dullness of spirit and mind in others, battling unto death the powers of evil for our sakes. Battle thus within me also, Jesus, defeating in each moment of my life the power of sin.

With Your flooding love, please drown my protests, pacify my fears and raise me from anxiety regarding pain, grief, disgrace, loss and abandonment. Live in me the cheerful, creative dedication owed to the duties of my vocation and relationships. As gift to the Trinity, allow me to share fully in the great love You consummate for us. Thank You for the privilege to follow Your path all my life, then to share in Your eternal life with all my family, and friends.

“He who rejects discipline despises his own self; he who listens to correction wins discernment.” [Proverbs 15:33]
 
May I never sin again

Merciful God with the seals of Baptism and Confirmation on my being, I contritely ask that You free me from sin forever.

Though many things wait for the appointed time before results of prayers are evident, sometimes Your blessings are granted in hidden or unexpected ways. I accept Your will, for You know our needs and Your dream for each person. However, I ask of You the grace to never sin again, as an undeserved, divinely bestowed right.

This right is implicit in my creation in Your image and in my Baptism, and obtained by Christ’s incarnation, life, sacrifice and resurrection. Knowing of this unmerited, unmeritable right, imparted through Your Holy Spirit, I ask You for the priceless gift of freedom from offending You.

If I ask You to preserve me from temptation and remove my faults, and I do, then I wait on Your time. Perhaps You will leave my faults for Your greater glory as I battle through grace to overcome them. Perhaps You desire my trust in Your hidden action in my prayer and service of others.

Perhaps You desire my perseverance and thanksgiving as You secretly form me with insights, experiences, joys and sufferings. Perhaps You only desire my faith that all goodness is from You. Then let it be so, until You convert me!

Yet, with sin itself, not so! Who of Heaven would wish any person’s sin against You?
Pray for me all Heaven that I never sin even in the slightest way, as regardless of faults I struggle to pray, fulfil my duties and participate in the Sacramental life of the Church.

God, You love the sinner but not sin, so preserve me from sin through all my struggles against temptation and unlove. Grant me faith that in mercy and love for Your Son, You will grant this prayer. God, let me never sin again. Easter Monday

Temptations: loving solutions

Our God, You do not wish us to succumb hopelessly to sin, guilt or anxiety. In our repentance, You wish us to hope in Your mercy. When we are tempted against goodness, please unfold loving solutions in us through wisdom, trust, prayer and thanksgiving.

In temptations against charity, let us invite You to love through us aptly and sensitively.
In doubt or discouragement, let us affirm faith.

Let temptations of pride remind us that we are called to serve each other in mutual charity. Let temptations against humility and obedience cause us to rejoice that God Incarnate obeyed humbly for our sakes.

In temptations against purity of intention, inspire us to focus our hearts and minds on You, in order to share in Your divine life, in harmony with everyone who seeks God.

In temptations against chastity, fill us with respect — for where others attract us, we honour You who love them. Let each temptation against chastity become the joyful victory of Your love in souls moving towards You in spiritual company of loved fellow humans!
God, in our temptations let us be trusting and peaceful, for You are God who loves us.

Let the loving solutions that You offer us in our difficulties, serve to recreate and unite us in the communion of Saints and Angels. Let goodness be wrought out of all temptation so that Your kingdom triumphs before everything that seeks its destruction. August 1982

“Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and He does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.” [James 1:13-15]
 
Prodigal

Father, like the prodigal son, I squander gifts of my eternal inheritance. Like him, I spiral into deprivation and alienation.

Yet the ‘prodigal son’ possessed something that I do not. He bore memories of his father, his loving home and his former comfort. I have no memories of You, only hearsay and promises, books and teachings. I have no memories of my heavenly home, only those of my life upon earth with its pleasures and its sorrows.

Would I, knowing God, have departed from You and our home? Yet I do not know You and I often depart from You. In my humiliation, I return to You, still incapable of appreciating Your love.

Hungry and desperate, I stumble towards You with little merit in my return. I carefully formulate my entreaty upon Your mercy, saying, “Father, I am not worthy to be Your child. Let me be as a hired servant that I may eat, drink, and have shelter, and that my wounds may heal, and I may live.”

I cannot comprehend the depth of Your parental love for me. Scripture assures me of Your unconditional love, yet in my repentance as in my disobedience, I am ignoble still. Because of Your nature and in spite of mine, I call upon Your merciful love. Let me become, and remain, worthy of such a Father. 2001

Thy will be done

Our God, self is a subtle thief—the avenue by which sin drains time, resources, and sadly, Your children, away from You in compromise and self-seeking.

Awareness of my faults and failures makes me doubt that You can use me for Your loving purposes. Through such doubt, I can frustrate Your desires in me and cheat others of unique graces You intend for them through me. My humanity with its gifts, can steal me from You.

Yet, our God, You chose to use for Your Son ‘frail human flesh’ to obtain our fallen nature’s redemption. You watched Him laugh and weep, eat and walk with sinners and with ordinary people as He taught Your love and will. You saw Him touch and heal disease and sin…resist temptation that His humanness gave Him…and achieve submission and faith even in abandonment and death.

Through Jesus, You therefore give me confidence to ask You to hold me always in Your presence and in Your love and service through all the vicissitudes of my life. You give me courage to know that when I ask You to use me to the fullest extent of Your will, it is not pride, but humility—for I am nothing in myself, but in You, all is possible.

Leave me not simply in this knowledge, our God, but for sake of others, whom You created me to serve, please continually love through me. Let me discern the difference between my interpretation and Your will itself, so that Your perspectives become mine and I welcome your will for others and for me with humility and peace.

Hold me always in Your arms and keep my eyes on Your Face. Bathe me continually in Jesus’ blood and fill me with His life. Thereby, You may be glorified and shown to Your people that they may be drawn closer for the fact that You have given me existence and faith. Thank You, God, because by Your Love You will accomplish these.
 
Curtains of imperfection

Our God, it seems that all within me is a maze of curtains against the pure light of Your love. Those curtains, drawn aside, reveal drapes of faults in the dimness. These drapes too, when parted, allow illumination of other veils that were obscured in the darkness…And thus again, until wisps of curtained uncharity and unbelief are glimpsed everywhere within, only brushed aside temporarily in moments of grace to allow Your light to penetrate the deepest recesses of my being.

I discover that nowhere in my life is uncurtained to the light of Your pure love and truth. Even where I hope to find goodness is found veils of subtle sinfulness.

Finally, rejecting the despair of Judas I turn to You with repentant Peter, in sadness mingled with trust. I know that You will bless my continuing struggle and prayer in the white fire of divine love that blazes sin to nothing. I ask pardon of You whom I do not yet love, and forgiveness of anyone I love poorly. Merciful Lord please give recompense to others and Yourself for my sins and faults, and grant all that Your perfect love can give.
 
Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
Dear Father, look after Your servant C who is faithful to You and doing his best to please You. Dispel the negativity that invades his life, smooth out the anxiety and despair and grant him the love of Your son Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit grant him wisdom, love and understanding. Our Father… Hail Mary, …Glory Be… + Amen.
 
Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
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