MOST BLESSED and afflicted Virgin, Queen of Martyrs, who didst stand
generously beneath the cross, beholding the agony of thy dying Son; by
the sword of sorrow which then pierced thy soul, by the sufferings of
thy sorrowful life, by the unutterable joy which now more than repays
thee for them; look down with a mother’s pity and tenderness, as I kneel
before thee to compassionate thy sorrows, and to lay my petition with
childlike confidence in thy wounded heart. I beg of thee, O my Mother,
to plead continually for me with thy Son, since He can refuse thee
nothing, and through the merits of His most sacred Passion and Death,
together with thy own sufferings at the foot of the cross, so to touch
His Sacred Heart, that I may obtain my request,
Here pause and name the favours which you are asking Our Sorrowful
Mother to obtain for you through this Novena. (Let your secondary
intention be to pray for the intentions of all the people making this
Novena anywhere in the world. Thus a great mass prayer for all Novena
intentions will arise to Our Blessed Mother.)
For to whom shall I fly in my wants and miseries, if not to thee, O
Mother of mercy, who, having so deeply drunk the chalice of thy Son,
canst most pity us poor exiles, still doomed to sigh in this vale of
tears? Offer to Jesus but one drop of His Precious Blood, but one pang
of His adorable Heart; remind Him that thou art our life, our sweetness,
and our hope, and thou wilt obtain what I ask, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
Hail Mary, Virgin Most Sorrowful, pray for us.
(Seven times)
