EVENING SIGH - 30th Day

I will cure all your ills. . .

I will bandage your wounds with the oil of mercy and the wine of love. . .

O most gracious Lady, who has ever invoked you without being heard?  And who has ever prayed to you without being listened to?  Only the one who does not have recourse to you is lost.  To you, therefore, I have recourse,  O my Mother, have mercy on me.  Help me.  Do not abandon me.   

Evening Sigh:  My dear Mother, save me.

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EVENING SIGH - 28th Day

Simple, Sweet Modest . . .

Mary recognizes her doves . . .

How I feel comforted in my miseries and consoled in my tribulations!  What comfort I experience in temptations when I remember and call you for help, O my most beloved and most holy Mother Mary.  Yes, indeed, you have good reason, O saints, for calling my Lady, "the port of those in tribulation," as did St Ephrem.  St. Bonaventure says you are "the repairer of our calamities" and "the solace of the desolate" while St. Germanus names you as "the repose of our sighs."  Console me, My Mary.  I see myself full of sins and surrounded by enemies, without virtue and cold in love toward God.  Console me.  Comfort me.  And may the consolation move me to begin a new life, a life that will truly be pleasing to your Son and to you.    
Evening Sigh:  Change me, Mary my Mother. Change me.  You can do it.

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EVENING SIGH - 27th Day

Simple, Sweet Modest . . .

Mary recognizes her doves . . .

How I feel comforted in my miseries and consoled in my tribulations!  What comfort I experience in temptations when I remember and call you for help, O my most beloved and most holy Mother Mary.  Yes, indeed, you have good reason, O saints, for calling my Lady, "the port of those in tribulation," as did St Ephrem.  St. Bonaventure says you are "the repairer of our calamities" and "the solace of the desolate" while St. Germanus names you as "the repose of our sighs."  Console me, My Mary.  I see myself full of sins and surrounded by enemies, without virtue and cold in love toward God.  Console me.  Comfort me.  And may the consolation move me to begin a new life, a life that will truly be pleasing to your Son and to you.    
Evening Sigh:  Change me, Mary my Mother. Change me.  You can do it.

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EVENING SIGH - 26th Day

O, Mary, obtain for us perseverance. (French)

Mother, suffer me to come to thee.  (English)

Mary's children are called to be worthy. (German)

In you, our most holy Mother, we find a remedy for all our ills.  In you we find comfort for our weaknesses, for St. Germanus calls you, "the strength of our weakness."  In you we find the door for leaving the slavery of sin, for St. Bonaventure calls you, "the gate of liberty."  In you we find our secure peace, for the same saint calls you, "the safe repose of men."  In you we find relief in our sorry life,  "the solace of our pilgrimage," as St. Lawrence Justinian calls you.  In you we find divine grace and God himself, for St. Bonaventure calls you, "the throne of divine grace," and Proclus, "the bridge by which God descends to men," a happy  bridge over which God, distant from us on account of our faults, passes to dwell within us through his grace.
 

Evening Sigh:  O Mary, you are my strength, my liberation, my peace and salvation.   

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EVENING SIGH - 25th Day

For Mary our hearts

Our Lady our love.

St. Bernard says that Mary is that heavenly ark, in which we will be certainly freed from the shipwreck of eternal damnation, if we take timely refuge there:  "She is the ark in which we escape shipwreck."  The ark in which Noah escaped in a timely way from the universal shipwreck of the earth was indeed a figure of Mary.  But Hesychius says that Mary is a more spacious, stronger, and more compassionate art:  "She is more bountiful than Noah's ark."  Few men and few beasts were received and saved in Noah's ark, but Mary receives all who take refuge under her mantle and safely delivers them all.  How poor we would be if we had not Mary!  But how many, my Queen, are lost!  And why?  Because they do not have recourse to you.  And who would ever be lost, if one had recourse to you?
 

Evening Sigh:  "Most Holy Mary, grant that we all may always have recourse to you."

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