Reparation to the Immaculate Heart

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Immaculate Mother, I come to you to offer my love, my very life, and my Confession and Holy Communion in reparation for the sins committed against your all holy and Immaculate Heart. I desire too to offer the holy Rosary and meditation on its mysteries in reparation to your Immaculate Heart.

I offer these acts in reparation to you, O Mary Immaculate, especially for the following reasons:

- In reparation for the blasphemies that are uttered against your Immaculate Conception;

- In reparation for those who deny your perpetual Virginity and speak in any way against your holiness;

- In reparation for those who deny your Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time to accept you as the Mother of all mankind;

- In reparation for hose who try publicly to implant in the hearts of children indifference, contempt, and even hatred toward your Immaculate Heart;

- In reparation for those who insult you directly in your holy statues and images.

O Mother of God and Mother of men, Mother mine, take me as your child, grant comfort to my poor sinful heart, even as I desire to grant comfort and offer reparation to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Amen.

*Recommended for First Saturday devotions along with confession, communion, and five decades of the Rosary with at least fifteen minutes of meditation.

- Prayerbook for Catholics, Father Robert J. Fox

Prayer to the Mother of God

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O, Mother of Mercy! You understood the Mercy of God when you cried out in the Magnificat--"His mercy is from generation to generation.' Obtain for all sinners a childlike confidence in the Mercy of God!."

This is a prayer Blessed Seelos shared during his missions he gave on behalf of the Redemptorists on the East Coast. "He wanted to save every soul, no matter how low it had fallen."

Cheerful Ascetic by Michael J. Curley, C.Ss.R.

Prayer for the Spirit of Mary

Our Lady with St. Louis Marie de Montfort

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My Powerful Queen,
you are all mine through your mercy,
and I am all yours.
Take away from me all that may displease God
and cultivate in me all that is pleasing to him,May the light of your faith
dispel the darkness of my mind,
your deep humility
take the place of my pride,
your continual sight of God
fill my memory with his presence;
may the fire of the charity of your heart
inflame the lukewarmness of my own heart;
may your virtues take the place of my sins;
may your merits be my enrichment
and make up for all
that is wanting in me before God.

My beloved Mother,
grant that I may have no other spirit but your spirit,
to know Jesus Christ and his divine Will
and to praise and glorify the Lord,
that I may love God with burning love like yours.

- St. Louis de Montfort

Prayer to Our Lady of Surprises

Prayer to Our Lady of Surprises

O Mary, my mother, and Our Lady of Surprises, what a happy joy you caused the wedding guests, when you asked your Divine Son to work the miracle of water into wine. What a happy surprise for them since they thought the wine had run dry.

I, too, Mary, love surprises, and as your child, may I ask you to favor me with one today? I ask this only because you are my ever caring mother.

Shared by Sue Cifelli

O Jesus Living in Mary

Thanks Sue!

O Jesus, living in Mary,
Come and live in Thy servants,
In the spirit of Thy holiness,
In the fullness of Thy might,
In the truth of Thy virtues,
In the perfection of Thy ways,
In the communion of Thy mysteries.
Subdue every hostile power
In Thy spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.

St. Louis de Montfort