ACT OF REPARATION
Most Pleasing to the Blessed Virgin
While St. Gertrude was bewailing her negligence in
that she had never served the Mother of Jesus with due reverence, and
was beseeching our Lord to supply her lack of service, she seemed to
see the King of Glory arise and present his deific Heart to His Mother,
and therewith to make amends for all her negligence. To obtain a like
grace, recite the following prayer:
O SWEETEST Jesus, by that love wherewith Thou didst deign to take our
flesh of the most pure Virgin and of her to be born, that Thou mightest
satisfy the desires of the poor and the wants of the needy, I beseech
Thee that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to make amends to Thy ever- virgin
Mother, with Thine Own sweetest Heart, for all the manifold defects
which through my own negligence and ingratitude have tainted and marred
my service and honour of so gentle and loving a Mother, whose gracious
succour has never failed me in any danger or necessity. Do thou, O most
tender Jesus, present to her Thy sweetest Heart, overflowing with
ineffable blessedness, in reparation of this my neglect. Let her see
therein all the Divine love whereby Thou didst from all eternity freely
elect her to be Thy Mother, didst preserve her from all taint of
Original Sin, and incomparably adorn her with all graces and all
virtues. Let her see therein all the tenderness wherewith Thou didst
cling to her when she cherished Thee, her Child, in her bosom; all the
constant unfailing love with which, during the whole time of Thy
sojourn on earth, Thou, Who art the Ruler of Heaven and of earth, didst
obey her as a son his mother and especially in the hour of Thy death,
when, as though forgetting Thine Own intolerable anguish, and touched
to the heart by her desolation, Thou didst provide for her a guardian
and a son. Let her see therein that love beyond thought with which Thou
didst show her how precious she is in Thy sight, when on the day of her
most joyous Assumption Thou didst exalt her high above all the choirs
of Angels, and crown her Lady and Queen of Heaven and earth. And thus,
O good Jesus, may she be still to me a loving and long-suffering
Mother, and both in life and in death my compassionate advocate and
most gracious patroness. Amen.
THANKSGIVING FOR THE GRACES BESTOWED ON THE BLESSED
VIRGIN
When St. Gertrude had recited this short prayer, she
saw in vision the Mother of Divine grace arise and beseech the Blessed
Trinity to grant her as large a measure of grace as the heart of man
can receive in this life. Then the most glorious Trinity turned towards
the Saint, and filled her soul with unutterable grace and benediction.
BLESSED be the ineffable, ever-adorable omnipotence
of God the Father; and blessed the wondrous and manifold wisdom of God
the Son; and blessed the amazing and most tender goodness of the Holy
Ghost, the Paraclete; for that the ever-glorious Trinity hath deigned
to decree from eternity, to create in time, and to bestow on us as our
most effectual help and succour, the Virgin so full of all grace, in
order that He might communicate to her His Own Divine and
superabounding beatitude. Amen.
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