Run, hasten, O Lady, and in your mercy help your sinful servant, who calls upon you, and deliver him from the hands of the enemy. Who will not sigh to you? We sigh with love and grief, for we are oppressed on every side. How can we do otherwise than sigh to you, O solace […]
MARIAN PRAYERS OF SAINT BERNARD # 3 (A.D. 1090-1153) Read More »
O Blessed Virgin, grant that we may come to Thy Son through Thee, who hast found grace, engendered life, and art the Mother of salvation. Grant that He may receive us through Thee, He to whom we were given through Thee. May Thy wholesomeness excuse our corruption before Him; may Thy humility, so agreeable to
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Our Mediatrix and Advocate O blessed Lady, you found grace, brought forth the Life, and became the Mother of Salvation. May you obtain the grace for us to go to the Son. By your mediation, may we be received by the One who through you gave Himself to us. May your integrity compensate with Him
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Of your Love, O Mary O blessed Virgin, did anyone ever invoke you in need and yet fail to receive help? Only such a person could remain silent about your mercy. As for us, who are your poor servants, we congratulate ourselves for you on account of all your other virtues, but we rejoice in
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Mary, our Mother, the whole world reveres you as the holiest shrine of the living God, for in you the salvation of the world dawned. The Son of God was pleased to take human form from you. You have broken down the wall of hatred, the barrier between heaven and earth which was set us
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By you we have access to your Son, O blessed finder of grace, Mother of Life, Mother of Salvation, that by you He may receive us, Who by you was given to us.
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