Virgin and Child with Columbine
BERNARDO LUINI
c. 1520

NINTH VISIT
Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary

In all things like to her Son Jesus is His Mother Mary; and as she is the Mother of mercy, she is thrice happy when she helps and consoles the miserable. So great is the desire of this Mother to bestow graces on all, that Bernardine de Bustis says, that "she desires more to do us good, and to impart to us graces, than we can desire to receive them." [Mar. p. 2, s. 5]

Ejaculatory prayer. Hail, our hope!

[From the Naples Edition.]

Prayer of St. John Damascene.

Hail! Mary, the hope of Christians. Hear the petition of a sinner, who wishes to love thee with the greatest tenderness, and to honor thee as thou deservest, and who reposes in thee, next to God, his hope of salvation. Being indebted to thee for the preservation of my life. I entreat thee to restore me to the grace of thy Divine Son. Thou art the surest pledge of my salvation; deliver me, then, by thy prayers, from the heavy load of my sins. Disperse the darkness of my understanding; banish every inordinate affection from my heart; repress the temptations of my spiritual enemies, and so order my life that, under thy protection, I may arrive at eternal repose in Heaven. [In Nat. B. M. V. s. 1]

Ejaculatory prayer. O my Mother, obtain for me the grace that I may always remember thee.

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