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Prayer to Our Lady

MARY, we invoke you as the Help of Christians

because you afford help to Christians even in all temporal needs.

If, without being asked, you do so much, what will you do if we invoke your aid?

Though you are now enthroned in heaven,

you still take an interest in our misery and relieve our wants.

You are still the Mother of God in heaven as you were on earth;

Jesus, Who is Omnipotence Itself, remains your Son for all eternity.

Your love for us is now even more intense and more compassionate,

because you know our misery better in heaven than you did in this mortal life.

You obtain sweet rest for all who are laden with trouble and pain;

you give comfort to the afflicted and healing to the sick.

Help of Christians, give me an unbounded confidence in you.

You can help me, for your prayer is all-powerful with God,

and you will help me, for you are my Mother and you love me as your child.

Let me pray to you with a pure and penitent heart, for I cannot expect help from you if I continue to offend your dear Son and even crucify Him again by my sins.

I wish to beg your help with perseverance,

even though for some time I may receive no help.

I know you will grant my petition at the right time.

Teach me to pray with resignation to the will of God,

Who knows what is best for me.

Obtain for me at least the grace of bearing my cross with patience.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN