Mary, my Mother

Mary, my Mother

Mary, my Mother, you have a great desire to see Jesus loved; obtain for me this grace - to love Him with a love that is exceeding great, and to love no other but Him.

My Lady, you always obtain from your Son all that you ask Him for. Pray then for me and console me. Ask for me also a great love for yourself who are so much loved by God.

Through the sorrows that you bore on Calvary, when you looked on Jesus dying on the cross before your eyes, obtain for me a good death.

Thus, dear Mother, loving Jesus and you in this life, I shall come to love you eternally in paradise.

(Adapted, The Love of God in Practice, by St Alphonsus Liguori) - - -

"O my Jesus, he who does not love you, does not know you." - St. Alphonsus Liguori