“God save you Mary, you are full of grace…“. When speaking of prayer to the Mother of God, these are the first words that cross the mind of a Christian. It is true that the Ave Maria is the prayer to the virgin mary who knows himself best and prays. However, there are many other prayers to the Virgin, because Mary has a very special status in the Catholic religion: she is the Immaculate Conceptionthe Mother of God, the chosen of the Lord.
Here are three examples of prayers to Mary that were written by well-known saints, as well as a selection of prayers to Our Ladywhich adapt to different needs.
Three beautiful catholic prayers to Mary, Mother of God
Prayer of Saint Ephrem of Syria to the Virgin Mary
“My most holy Lady, Mother of God, full of grace, you are the glory of our nature, the channel of all goods, the queen of all things after the Trinity…, the mediatrix of the world after the Mediator; you are the mysterious bridge that unites earth with heaven, the key that opens the gates of paradise, our lawyer, our mediator. Look at my faith, look at my pious desires and remember your mercy and your power. Mother of the One who is the only merciful and good, she welcomes my soul in my misery and, through your mediation, make it worthy to be one day at the right hand of your only Son. Amen.”
Prayer to the Virgin Mary of Saint John Paul II
O Immaculate Virgin,
Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!
You, who from this place manifest
your clemency and your compassion
to all those who request your protection;
listen to the prayer that with filial trust we address to you,
and present it before your Son Jesus, our only Redeemer.
Mother of mercy, teacher of the hidden and silent sacrifice,
to you, who come out to meet us sinners,
We also consecrate our life, our work,
our joys, our illnesses and our pains.
Give peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples;
since everything we have and are we put under your care,
Our Lady and Mother.
We want to be totally yours and walk the path with you
Of a full fidelity to Jesus Christ to his Church:
Do not let go of your loving hand. Amen.”
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Prayer of Saint Maximilian Kolbe to the Virgin Mary
“Immaculate, queen of heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving mother, to whom God entrusted the economy of mercy. I, unworthy sinner, prostrate myself before you, begging you to accept my whole being as your thing and possession.
To you, Mother, I offer all the difficulties of my soul and my body, all life, death and eternity. Have also, if you wish, my whole being, without any reservation, to fulfill what has been said of you: “She will crush your head” (Gen 3:15), and also: “You have defeated all heresies in the world”.
Make me become a useful instrument in your most pure and merciful hands to introduce and increase your glory in so many lukewarm and indifferent souls, and, in this way, increase as much as possible the blessed kingdom of the sacred heart of Jesus.
Where you enter, oh immaculate, you obtain the grace of conversion and sanctification, since all the grace that flows from the heart of Jesus for us comes to us through your hands. Help me to praise you, holy virgin and give me strength against your enemies. Amen.”
Devotions, rosary and novenas to the Virgin Mary
We can pray to the Virgin Mary in a simple way, and at any time of the day with these short and beautiful sentences:
You can also pray in communion with all Christians, with these traditional prayers to the virgin mary:
We can also offer you longest moments of prayer via:
Through these various apparitions: in Fatima, in Medjugorje, in Lourdes, etc., the mother of Christ invites us to pray to her for our salvation and for that of the world. We can pray to the Virgin Mary, as she asked us to do, with the following prayers:
Why pray to the Virgin Mary?
“Do not be afraid to love the Blessed Virgin too much, you will never love her enough and Jesus will be very happy since the Blessed Virgin is his motherSaint Therese of Lisieux said to her cousin. Offering our prayers to Saint Mary, so that she may present them to her son, is the best way to come closer to Christ. Prayer leads us to the school of Mary: a school of humility , of tenderness, of absolute and unlimited love, which makes us true Christians.Mary is the model of the Christian, the one who allows us to follow in the footsteps of her son, Jesus.
In the Gospel according to Saint John (19:26-27), Jesus, at the moment of dying, makes Mary the mother of all Christians. He tells her: “Woman, here is your son“, and turning to John, he exclaims: “here is your mother“. Mary becomes the mother of John, of the disciples and of all Christians, that is, the mother of the Church.
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Find many communities to the Virgin Mary, to pray every week to the Virgin of Lourdes, to the Virgin of Guadalupe, to the Virgin of Carmen. In addition, you can join the community “the five minutes of Mary”, and receive a reflection on our Lady, to unite us little by little in the love of our most holy mother.