Fourth Day of the Novena
Prayer in honour of the Fourth Sorrow of Mary
Most sorrowful Mother, sorrow filled your motherly heart
when you followed your dear Son to Calvary, and saw Him falling under the weight of the Cross.
I wish to join with you in this sorrow,
and I ask you, O Queen of Martyrs, to obtain for me the grace
to bear with patience whatever cross it will please God to send me.
Hail Mary..
The two prayers which follow are recited each day of the Novena
Prayer to our Sorrowful Mother for a particular grace
O most holy and afflicted Virgin, Queen of Martyrs, who stood on Mount Calvary when your Son was in agony: by the sword of sorrow which pierced your heart, by the sufferings of your whole life on earth, by your unspeakable joy in Heaven; look down with maternal pity and tenderness as I kneel before you to sympathise with your sorrows, and to place my petition, with childlike confidence, in your wounded heart.
I beg of you, dear Mother, to plead for me with your divine Son, since He can refuse you nothing, and, through the merits of His most sacred Passion and Death, together with your own suffering at the foot of His Cross, so to move His Sacred Heart that I may obtain this prayer request….
To whom shall I go in my need and misery, if not to you, O Mother most merciful, you who pity us poor exiles still sighing in this valley of tears? Offer to Jesus for us but one drop of His most Precious Blood, but one pang of His loving Sacred Heart; remind Him that you are our life, our sweetness and our hope, and your prayer on our behalf will be heard. Amen.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your clemency, hear and answer me. Amen.
Prayer in honour of the Fourth Sorrow of Mary
Most sorrowful Mother, sorrow filled your motherly heart
when you followed your dear Son to Calvary, and saw Him falling under the weight of the Cross.
I wish to join with you in this sorrow,
and I ask you, O Queen of Martyrs, to obtain for me the grace
to bear with patience whatever cross it will please God to send me.
Hail Mary..
The two prayers which follow are recited each day of the Novena
Prayer to our Sorrowful Mother for a particular grace
O most holy and afflicted Virgin, Queen of Martyrs, who stood on Mount Calvary when your Son was in agony: by the sword of sorrow which pierced your heart, by the sufferings of your whole life on earth, by your unspeakable joy in Heaven; look down with maternal pity and tenderness as I kneel before you to sympathise with your sorrows, and to place my petition, with childlike confidence, in your wounded heart.
I beg of you, dear Mother, to plead for me with your divine Son, since He can refuse you nothing, and, through the merits of His most sacred Passion and Death, together with your own suffering at the foot of His Cross, so to move His Sacred Heart that I may obtain this prayer request….
To whom shall I go in my need and misery, if not to you, O Mother most merciful, you who pity us poor exiles still sighing in this valley of tears? Offer to Jesus for us but one drop of His most Precious Blood, but one pang of His loving Sacred Heart; remind Him that you are our life, our sweetness and our hope, and your prayer on our behalf will be heard. Amen.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your clemency, hear and answer me. Amen.
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