EVENING SIGH - 7th Day

HAIL MARY, OUR HOPE 

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O Lady—Our Lady—You are of all the most lovely, the entire Church calls you and greets you, "Our Hope."  You therefore who are the Hope of All, be my Hope too.  It is St. Bernard who calls you, "The whole reason of my hope;"  and he says of you, "Even the one whose need is desperate can hope in you."  In like manner I too can say:  O Mary, you are mine—you can save those who are in desperate need.  In you I put all my hope.

Evening Sigh—Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.

EVENING SIGH - 6TH DAY

THE BEAUTIFUL OLIVE TREE 

HEAVENLY REFUGE

I will not leave you orphans.

"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.