"O Mary, Teach Us..."

For this month of May - Mary’s month - I want to share a beautiful prayer I discovered in a Dominican Church in Dublin, Ireland.  May Our Lady, who walks with us throughout our lives, in every circumstance, keep you safe from harm and bring you closer to Jesus every day all the way to heaven.

-Sr. Elizabeth Marie, CFR

Prayer to Our Lady of the Rosary

O Mary, teach us to accept God’s will in the spirit of the Annunciation.

Visit us in our need as you visited Elizabeth.

Bring us forth in grace as you brought forth Jesus in the flesh.

Present us in the temple of the Father,

and help us find Jesus in the midst of us.

 

We thank you, that by Baptism, we are sons and daughters of the heavenly Father.

We rejoice to be invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb.

May we proclaim the Kingdom of God in our lives.

May we reflect something of the transfigured glory of Jesus your Son,

and be nourished by His body and blood in the blessed Eucharist.

 

Obtain for us O Blessed Mother, the courage to say,

“Father, your will be done” and the favor we now ask _______.

Grant that through His wounds we may be healed.

Teach us the meekness of our King crowned with thorns.

Help us to carry our cross,

and know “the fellowship of His sufferings on Calvary.”

 

May we know too, the “power of His resurrection”

and ascend to that home prepared for us.

Pray for us, dear Mother, that we may share in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,

and after this our exile, rejoice in the glory of your Assumption

 and Coronation in heaven.

Amen.