faction, worthy of acceptance with God, and in full charity with my neighbour.
Deal mercifully with me, O blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in that dreadful hour when the breath of life shall fail me, and my tongue be powerless to invoke thee, and my eyes to see the light, and my ears to hear any voice; remember, then, in that last sad hour of my need, O Mary, the prayers which I now pour into thy gracious ears, that I may be delivered from the ministers of Satan, and be set among the faithful of Christ, the servants and friends of thy Son. Amen.
ANOTHER PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
I implore thee, holy Lady, Mary, Mother of God, most full of pity, daughter of the most high King, most glorious Mother, Mother of orphans, comfort of the desolate, way of the wanderers, salvation of all that hope in thee, virgin before the birth of thy Son, virgin in his birth, and virgin after his birth, fountain of mercy, fountain of grace and salvation, fountain of consolation and pardon, fountain of love and joy, fountain of life and forgiveness; by the holy and unspeakable gladness with which thy spirit exulted in the hour in which the Son of God was announced to thee by Gabriel the Archangel, and was conceived by thee.
And by the holy and unspeakable humility with which thou repliest to the Archangel Gabriel: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word; and by the divine Mystery which the Holy Ghost then wrought in thee, and by the ineffable grace, goodness, mercy, love, and humility with which thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, came down to take human flesh in thy most adorable womb; and by those most glorious joys which thou hadst of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
And by that holy and exceeding compassion and most bitter grief of heart which thou hadst when thou beheldedst thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, stripped naked before the Cross, lifted up, hanging crucified, wounded, and thirsting upon it, and sawest that most bitter potion, the gall and the vinegar put to his mouth, heardest Him cry, Eli, and sawest him die.
And by the Five Wounds of the same thy Son, and by the sinking of thy heart through excessive sorrow for his wounds, and by the sorrow which thou hadst when thou sawest him wounded, even through the fountains of his Blood; and by all his Passion, and the sorrow of thy heart; and by the fountains of thy tears, I implore thee
