Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son, Mary: Day 133

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Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son, Mary: Day 133 2015-11-22T11:06:43-05:00 Pete Socks

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Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son

St. Bernard’s prayer beautifully expresses the intimate connection between devotion to Mary and devotion to Jesus, and the meaning of the celebrated motto: “To Jesus through Mary.”

Blessed Lady, you found grace; you brought forth Life;
you became the mother of salvation.
Gain for us the grace to turn to your Son through you.
Through you, let us be received by the One who through you gave himself to us.
Let your wholesomeness make reparation with him for the fault of our corruption;
and let your humility, so pleasing to God, gain forgiveness for our vanity.
Let your abundant charity cover the multitude of our sins, and let your glorious fruitfulness
conceive in us a fruitfulness of merits.
Reconcile us to your Son, entrust us to him, and present us to him. Blessed Virgin, by the grace you found with God,
by the favor you merited,
by the mercy he has granted you, gain for us this favor:
Let the One who, through you,
came down to share our weakness and affliction,
make us share, through you, his glory and blessedness— Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord,
who is above all, God forever blessed!
—St. Bernard of Clairvaux

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
In my devotion to Mary, do I always keep in mind that in the end, my goal is for her to bring me to Jesus?

CLOSING PRAYER
From a prayer of St. Alphonsus Liguori: Jesus wills that I should turn to you, Mary, not only so that his blood may save me, but also so that your prayers may assist me in this great work, for your glory, and for his own, since you are his mother.

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