One Minute MeditationHoly Mary, Mother of God, you have given the world it’s true Light, Jesus, your Son, the Son of God. You abandon yourself completely to God’s call and this became a wellspring of the goodness which flows forth from Him.

Show us Jesus! Lead us to Him! Teacher us to know and love Him, so that we too can become capable of true love and be fountains of living water in the midst of a thirsting world.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

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Holy Mary, Mother of God, preserve in me the heart of a child, pure and clean like spring water; a simple heart that does not remain absorbed in its own sadness; a loving heart that really gives with compassion; a faithful and generous heart that neither forgets good nor feels bitterness for any evil.

Give me a sweet and humble heart that loves without asking to be loved in return, happy to lose itself in the heart of others, sacrificing itself in front of your Divine Son; a great and unconquerable heart which no ingratitude can close and no indifference can tire; a heart tormented by the glory of Christ, pierced by His love with a wound that will not heal until heaven.

+Father Leonce de Grandmaison

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O most august and blessed Virgin Mary! Holy Mother of God! Glorious Queen of heaven and earth! Powerful protectress of those who love you, and unfailing advocate of all who invoke you! Look down, we beseech you, from thy throne of glory on your devoted children.

Accept the solemn offering we present you of this month, especially dedicated to you, and receive our ardent, humble desire, that by our love and fervor we may worthily honor you, who, next to God, art deserving of all honor.

Receive us, O Mother of mercy, among your best beloved children. Extend to us your maternal tenderness and solicitude; obtain for us a place in the Heart of Jesus and a special share in the gifts of His grace.

Oh, deign, we beseech you, to recognize our claims on your protection, to watch over our spiritual and temporal interests, as well as those of all who are dear to us. Deign to infuse into our souls the spirit of Christ and to teach us yourself to become meek, humble, charitable, patient, and submissive to the will of God.

May our hearts burn with the love of your divine Son, and of you, His blessed Mother, not for a month alone, but for time and eternity. May we thirst and labor for the promotion of His glory and for thy greater veneration.

Receive us, O Mary, the refuge of sinners; grant us a mother’s blessing and a mother’s care now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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