TWENTY-FIRST VISIT
Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Denis, the Carthusian, calls the Most Blessed Virgin "the advocate of all the wicked who have recourse to her." [De Laud. V. M. l. 2, a. 23]

Since, then, O great Mother of God, thy office is to defend the causes of the most guilty criminals who have recourse to thee, behold me now at thy feet; to thee I have recourse, and I address thee in the words of St. Thomas of Villanova: "O gracious advocate, fulfill thy charge." [In Nat. B. V. conc. 3] Now quickly enter upon thy office, undertake my cause: it is true that I have indeed been guilty before my Lord, having offended Him, after the many benefits and graces He has conferred upon me; but the evil is done; thou canst save me. Thou hast only to tell thy God that thou defendest me, and then I shall be forgiven, and shall be saved.
 
Ejaculatory prayer. My dear Mother, thou hast to save me!

[From the Naples Edition.]

Prayer of William Bishop of Paris.

 I address my petitions to thee, O Mother of God! whom the whole Church styles the Mother of mercy. Canst thou, whose prayers are always acceptable to God, refuse thy intercession in behalf of sinners? Justly does St. Bernard say, that we may cease to call thee the Mother of Mercy, if anyone ever invokes thee in the hour of need, without experiencing thy assistance. Thou wilt not, therefore, exclude me from a share in thy compassion. Thou wilt intercede for me with more earnestness than I can for myself; and thou wilt procure more abundant graces than I could presume to ask. O Mother of mercy! can that clemency, which never abandoned anyone, refuse me its assistance in the danger to which I am exposed of being eternally lost? [De Rhet. div. c. 18]
 

Ejaculatory prayer. O Mary! I am thine: save me.

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