Digital Holy Card: Prayers to the Blessed Virgin for Every Wednesday
MOTHER of God, most holy Mary, how often by my sins have I
merited hell! Long ago, perhaps, judgment would have gone forth against my
first mortal sin, hadst thou not, in thy tender pity, delayed the justice of
God, and afterward attracted me by thy sweetness to have confidence in thy
prayers. And oh, how very often should I have fallen in the dangers which beset
my steps hadst thou not, loving Mother that thou art, preserved me by the grace
thou didst obtain for me by thy prayers. But, my Queen, what will thy pity and
favors avail me, if after all I perish in the flames of hell?
If there was once a time when I loved thee not, now, next to
God, I love thee before all. Wherefore, henceforth and forever, let me not turn
my back upon thee and upon my God, who through thee hast granted me so many
mercies.
O Lady, most worthy of all love, let it not be I thy child,
should be doomed to hate and to curse thee forever in hell. Thou wilt surely
never permit thy servant to be lost who loves thee. O Mary, say not that I ever
can be lost! Yet lost I shall assuredly be if I abandon thee. But who could
ever have the heart to leave thee? Who can ever forget thy love? No, it is
impossible for that man to perish who faithfully recommends himself to thee and
has recourse to thee. Only leave me not, my Mother, in my own hands, or I am
lost! Let me but cling to thee! Save me, my hope! Save me from hell; or,
rather, save me from sin, which alone can condemn me to hell. Amen.
(3 Hail Marys in reparation for blasphemies against the Blessed
Virgin Mary.)
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