Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 2:24pm

Saint Augustine: To the Mother of God

 

O blessed Virgin Mary, who can worthily repay thee thy just dues of praise and thanksgiving, thou who by the wondrous assent of thy will didst rescue a fallen world?  What songs of praise can our weak human nature recite in thy honor, since it is by thy intervention alone that it has found the way to restoration.  Accept, then, such poor thanks as we have here to offer, though they be unequal to thy merits; and receiving our vows, obtain by thy prayers the remission of our offenses.  Carry thou our prayers within the sanctuary of the heavenly audience, and bring forth from it the antidote of our reconciliation.  May the sins we bring before Almighty God through thee, become pardonable through thee; may what we ask for with sure confidence, through thee be granted.  Take our offering, grant us our requests, obtain pardon for what we fear, for thou art the sole hope of sinners.  Through thee we hope for the remission of our sins, and in thee, O blessed Lady, is our hope of reward.  Holy Mary, succour the miserable, help the fainthearted, comfort the sorrowful, pray for thy people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all women consecrated to God; may all who keep thy holy commemoration feel now thy help and protection.  Be thou ever ready to assist us when we pray, and bring back to us the answers to our prayers.  Make it thy continual care to pray for the people of God, thou who, blessed by God, didst merit to bear the Redeemer of the world, who liveth and reigneth, world without end.  Amen.

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Don the Kiwi
Don the Kiwi
Monday, May 13, AD 2013 12:36am

Wow.
Don, I’ve never heard that hymn before – obviously never made it here down under to the netherworld 😉
I spent , as you know, 10 years in Australia, and I never heard it there either.
Must download it and introduce it here.
Thanks.

Erin Pascal
Monday, May 13, AD 2013 7:49am

Thank you so much for sharing this very beautiful post! It was a wonderful feeling reading it and I felt better the moment I finished reading the prayer. Thank you so much! The hymn is very touching and it’s a soothing song to the ear. 🙂

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