THIRTEENTH VISIT
Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Bernard exhorts us, saying: "Let us seek for grace, and let us seek it by Mary." "She," says St. Peter Damian, "is the treasure of Divine graces." [De Aquaed.] She can enrich us, and she desires to do so. She therefore invites and calls us, saying: Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. [Prov. ix. 4] Most amiable Lady, most exalted Lady, most gracious Lady, look on a poor sinner who recommends himself to Thee, and who places all his confidence in thee.

Ejaculatory prayer. We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God!

[From the Naples Edition.]

Prayer of St. Ildefonsus.

Most humble handmaid of thy Divine Son! I prostrate myself before thee, conjuring thee to obtain pardon of my sins, that I may be cleansed from all the imperfections of my life. I entreat thee to procure me the grace of being always united to God and to thee, and to be ever a faithful servant of thy Son and of thee: of thy Son, as my Lord and my Redeemer; and of thee, as the cause of my redemption: for if He has paid the price of my redemption, it was with the body which he received from thee.

Ejaculatory prayer. O Mary! obtain for me confidence in thy intercession, and the grace that I may continually have recourse to thee.

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