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heaven," and she will turn your sorrow to joy and your afflictions into consolation.
Have you lost the state of grace? Praise and honor the numberless graces with which God has filled
the Blessed Virgin and say to her: Thou art full of grace and filled with all the
gifts of the Holy Spirit, and she will give you some of these graces.
Are you all alone, having lost God's protection? Pray to
Mary, and say: "The Lord is with thee and this union is far nobler and more intimate than that
which He has with saints and the just-because thou art one with Him: He is thy Son
and His Flesh is thy flesh; thou art united to the Lord because of thy perfect likeness to Him and
by your mutual love-for thou art His Mother." And then say to her: ''The Three Persons of the
Godhead are with thee because thou art the Temple of the Most Blessed Trinity,'' and she will place
you once more under the protection and care of Almighty God. 
Have you become an outcast and have you been accursed by God? Then say to Our Lady: "Blessed art
thou above all women and above all nations, by thy purity and fertility; thou hast turned God's
maledictions into blessings or and she will bless you.
Do you hunger for the bread of grace and the bread of life? Draw near to her who bore the Living
Bread Which came down from heaven, and say to her: Blessed be the Fruit of thy womb Whom thou hast
conceived without the slightest loss of thy virginity, Whom thou didst carry without discomfort and
to Whom thou didst give birth without pain. Blessed be Jesus Who has redeemed our suffering world
when we were in the bondage of sin, Who has healed the world of its sickness, Who has raised the
dead to life, brought home the banished, restored sinners to a life of grace and Who has
saved men from damnation." Without doubt, your soul will be filled with the bread of grace in this
life and of eternal glory in the next.  Amen.
Then, at the end of your prayer, pray thus with Holy Mother Church:

"Holy Mary
Holy in body and in soul
Holy because of thy incomparable And eternal devotion
To the service of God
Holy in thy great rank

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