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SIXTEENTH VISIT
Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary

My Lady, though didst say to St. Bridget: "However much a man sins, if he returns to me with a real purpose of amendment, I am instantly ready to welcome him: neither do I pay attention to the greatness of his sins, but to the intention alone with which he comes. I do not disdain to anoint and heal his wounds; for I am called, and truly am, the Mother of mercy." [Rev. l. 2, c. 23; et l. 6, c. 117] Since, then, thou hast both the power and the will to heal me, behold, I have recourse to thee, O heavenly physician; heal the many wounds of my soul: with a single word addressed by thee to thy Son I shall be restored.

Ejaculatory prayer. O Mary, have pity on me!

[From the Naples Edition.]

Prayer of St. Peter Damian.

O holy Virgin! come to the assistance of those who call upon thee: cast a look of pity on us. Hast thou, in the close alliance thou holdest with the Deity, forgotten thy fellow-creatures? Ah! certainly not. Thou knowest too well the misery or our condition, and the dangers to which we are exposed, and it would ill become clemency and compassion like thine to forget us. Exert thy influence in our behalf. Nothing is impossible to thee, and thou canst, by thy prayers, obtain for the most grievous sinner, the sweet hope of salvation. The greater thy power is, the greater ought also to be thy mercy. [In Nat. B. M. V. s. 1]

  Ejaculatory prayer. O Mary! thou canst by thy intercession cleanse me from my sins, and I look for this favor from thee.


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