Prayer
to Mary For Her Faithful Slaves
Hail, Mary, most beloved daughter of the eternal Father; hail, Mary,
most admirable mother of the Son; hail, Mary, most faithful spouse of the Holy
Spirit; hail, Mary, Mother most dear, Lady most lovable, Queen most powerful!
Hail, Mary, my joy, my glory, my heart and soul. You are all mine through God’s
mercy, but I am all yours in justice. Yet I do not belong sufficiently to you,
and so once again, as a slave who always belongs to his master, I give myself
wholly to you, reserving nothing for myself or for others.
If you still see anything in me which is not given to you, please take
it now. Make yourself completely owner of all my capabilities. Destroy in me
everything that is displeasing to God. Uproot it and bring it to nothing.
Implant in me all that you deem to be good; improve it and make it increase in
me.
May the light of your faith dispel the darkness of my mind. May your
deep humility take the place of my pride. May your heavenly contemplation put
an end to the distractions of my wandering imagination. May your continuous
vision of God fill my memory with his presence. May the burning love of your
heart inflame the coldness of mine. May your virtues take the place of my sins.
May your merits be my adornment and make up for my unworthiness before God.
Finally, most dearly beloved Mother, grant, if it be possible, that I may have
no other spirit but yours to know Jesus and his divine will. May I have no soul
but yours to praise and glorify the Lord. May I have no heart but yours to love
God purely and ardently as you love him.
I do not ask for visions or revelations, for sensible devotion or even
spiritual pleasures. It is your privilege to see God clearly in perpetual
light. It is your privilege to savour the delights of heaven where nothing is
without sweetness. It is your privilege to triumph gloriously in heaven at the
right hand of your Son without further humiliation, and to command angels, men,
and demons, without resistance on their part. It is your privilege to dispose
at your own choice of all the good gifts of God without any exception.
Such, most holy Mary, is the excellent portion which the Lord has given
you, and which will never be taken from you, and which gives me great joy. As
for my portion here on earth, I wish only to have a share in yours, that is, to
have simple faith without seeing or tasting, to suffer joyfully without the
consolation of men, to die daily to myself without flinching, to work gallantly
for you even until death without any self-interest, as the most worthless of your
slaves. The only grace I beg you in your kindness to obtain for me is that
every day and moment of my life I may say this threefold Amen: Amen, so be it,
to all you did upon earth; Amen, so be it, to all you are doing now in heaven;
Amen, so be it, to all you are doing in my soul. In that way, you and you alone
will fully glorify Jesus in me during all my life and throughout eternity.
Amen.
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