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Prayer, “Mary Most Holy Virgin”
239. The Raccolta (1910)

MARY, most holy Virgin and Queen of Martyrs, would that I could be transported to Heaven, there to contemplate the honours bestowed on thee by the Blessed Trinity and by all the heavenly court. But since I am still a pilgrim in this valley of tears, accept from me, thy un worthy and sinful servant, the most sincere homage and the most complete act of submission which a human being is capable of making to thee. In thy adorable heart, transfixed with so many swords of grief, I lay, once for all, my poor soul; receive me as the companion of thy sorrows, and do not allow me ever to be separated from that Cross on which thy only Son breathed forth his blessed Soul for me. With thee, O Mary, will I suffer all the trials, contradictions and infirmities with which it may please thy Divine Son to visit me in this life. I offer all to thee in memory of those sorrows which thou didst endure in thy life on earth; so that every thought of my mind, every beating of my heart, may henceforth be an act of compassion for thy sorrows and an act of rejoicing in the glories which thou dost now enjoy in Heaven. Therefore, dear Mother, while I now com passionate thee and rejoice to see thee thus glorified, do thou have compassion on me, and reconcile me with thy Son JESUS, so that I may be able to return and be thy true and faithful son. Come on my last day to assist me in my agony, as thou didst once assist at that of thy Divine Son, so that from this cruel exile I may come to share in thy glory in Heaven. Amen.