EVENING SIGH - Sixth Visit

THE BEAUTIFUL OLIVE TREE

"She is like a beautiful olive tree in the meadow."  Mary tells us:  I am the lovely olive tree from which the soothing oil is ever flowing.  I stand in the midst of the meadows so that all can see me and everybody can come to me.  
     Let us speak to her with St. Augustine:  "O Most Loving Mother, keep it in mind that since the beginning of time nobody has heard it said that you ever cast off one that came to you for protection."  O Most Gentle Queen, nobody has ever heard of such a thing that a client who went to you for help was left forsaken.  So it is not likely that I will be the only poor unfortunate one that came to you and was left an outcast.  

Evening Sigh—O Mary, this is the grace I seek—always to come to you for help.

PATRONAGE PRAYER

To be Said Each Day to Obtain Mary's Powerful Patronage

O Virgin Immaculate and Most Holy, my Mother Mary—the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the World, the Advocate, the Hope, the Refuge of Sinners,—to you I come to seek your help today—I, who am the most in need of all. 
I bow in reverence before you, O Great Queen, and I thank you for the great graces you have given me until now, but especially because you have saved me from the punishments of hell which I have deserved so many times.
I love you, Most Lovely Lady, and because I love you so much I promise to be your faithful servant always, and to do all I can to make you loved by others,  In you I place all my hopes, all my salvation.
O Mother of Mercy, accept me for your servant and shield me under your mantle;  because you are great and powerful with God deliver me from all temptations, or better still get me the grace to conquer them even until death.
From you I ask for the true love of Jesus Christ;  through you I hope to die a good death.  O My Mother, I pray you by the love you have for God to give me your help at all times, but most of all at the last moment of my life;  do not leave me until you see me safe in Heaven blessing you and singing your mercies for ever.  Amen.  This is my hope.  So let it be.

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