Our Morning Offering – 4 May Mary’s Month! – Friday of the Fifth Week of Eastertide
A Prayer of Praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary
By St Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) Father & Doctor of the Church
O pure and immaculate and likewise blessed Virgin,
who are the sinless Mother of your Son,
the mighty Lord of the universe,
you who are inviolate and altogether holy,
the hope of the hopeless and sinful,
we sing your praises.
We bless you, as full of every grace,
you who did bear the God-Man,
we all bow low before you,
we invoke you and implore your aid.
Rescue us, O holy and inviolate Virgin,
from every necessity that presses upon us
and from all the temptations of the devil.
Be our intercessor and advocate
at the hour of death and judgement,
deliver us from the fire that is not extinguished
and from the outer darkness.
Make us worthy of the glory of your Son,
O dearest and most clement Virgin Mother.
You indeed are our only hope,
most sure and sacred in God’s sight,
to whom be honour and glory,
majesty and dominion,
forever and ever, world without end.
Amen
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