Prayers

Morning Offering

O Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
through Mary, Immaculate Queen,
bless us, and grant us the grace to spend this day
in a manner which is holy and pleasing to you.

Close to you, o Mary, Immaculate Queen, we wish to live.
With you we desire to offer ourselves to Jesus.
Through you, we wish to receive his blessing
so that every moment of our day, from morning until night,
may be filled only with his most holy will.

O Mary, Immaculate Queen, hold us tightly by the hand
so that we may walk together with you
along the pathway of the will of God.

Amen.

Prayer to Mary, Immaculate Queen

O Mary, Immaculate Queen,
look down upon this distressed and suffering world.
You know our misery and our weakness.
O you who are our Mother, saving us in the hour of peril,
have compassion on us in these days of great and heavy trial.

Jesus has confided to you the treasury of His grace,
and through you He wills to grant us pardon and mercy.
In these hours of anguish therefore
your children come to you as their hope.
We recognise your Queenship and ardently desire your triumph.
We need a mother and a mother's heart.
You are for us the luminous dawn
which dissipates our darkness and points out the way to life.
In your clemency obtain for us the courage and confidence
of which we have such need.

Most holy and adorable Trinity,
You who have crowned with glory in heaven
the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Saviour,
grant that all her children on earth
may acknowledge Her as their sovereign Queen,
that all hearts, homes and nations
may recognise her place as Mother and as Queen.

Amen.