Also known as Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary
A prayer of confident appeal, made when things are urgent. Its whole argument is that no one has ever asked Mary for help and been turned away.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help, or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;
to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
Two greetings from the Gospel — the angel’s and Elizabeth’s — followed by the Church’s own petition. The prayer the Rosary is built from.
The oldest known prayer to Mary — found on an Egyptian papyrus from around the third century. Christians were praying these words while the persecutions were still going on.
Prayed at the end of the Rosary and sung at the close of the day in monasteries. It does not pretend life is easy — it calls this world a valley of tears and asks for help in it.
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