THIRTY-FIRST VISIT
Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Amadeus says that our most blessed Queen, Mary, is always in the Divine presence, acting as our advocate, and interposing with God by her prayers, which are most powerful: "The most blessed Virgin stands before the face of her Creator, interceding with her most powerful prayers for us. For," he adds, " she well sees our miseries and our dangers, and the most clement and sweet Lady compassionates and succors us with a mother's love."  [De Laud. B. V. hom. 5]

Thou, my advocate and my most loving Mother, thou even now seest the miseries of my soul; thou seest my dangers, and prayest for me. Pray, pray, and cease not to pray, until thou seest me saved and thanking thee in Heaven. The devout Blosius tells me that thou, O most sweet Mary, art, after Jesus, the certain salvation of those who are thy faithful servants. [Par. an. p. 2, c. 4] Ah! this grace I now ask thee: grant me the happy lot of being thy faithful servant until death; that after death I may go to bless thee in Heaven, where I shall be certain never more, as long as God is God, to leave thy sacred feet.

Ejaculatory prayer. O Mary, my Mother, grant that I may be ever thine!

[From the Naples Edition.]

O Mary, thou art the tower of David, and therefore art able to defend those who take refuge under thee. Protect all who are engaged in the contest. I experience continual assaults from my enemies, who are striving to deprive me of the grace of God,-----and to withdraw me from thy protection. But thou art the fortress and the bulwark of our hope: thou dost not disdain to fight in behalf of those who trust in thee. O Mary, defend me, then, against all my enemies, and fight my battles for me, because I rely with confidence on thee.

Ejaculatory prayer.  O Mary, thou art my protectress.

THE PRAYER TO BE SAID AT THE END OF EACH VISIT, CLICK HERE.

My Good, my God, all mine Thou art;
Myself I give Thee, all my heart;
For Thee, and Thee alone, I sigh.

What have I in Heaven? and besides Thee, what do I desire upon earth? Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion forever.

-----Ps. lxxii. 25, 26

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