The words that great holy women addressed to the Virgin Mary can help you speak to your Mother from heaven and express your love.
“Because I am a Mother, I have never had any difficulty in speaking with Mary and in feeling very close to Her,” said Teresa of Calcutta . Like her, many saints have addressed the Virgin with words of admiration, trust, forgiveness, affection,… that today can help you speak to your Mother in Heaven and express your love to her. Here are some of her prayers:
1 SAINT ELIZABETH
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Isabel spoke these words to her cousin Mary when she received her visit while she was pregnant with Saint John the Baptist ( Lk 1:42 ). Today they are part of the most famous Marian prayer, the Hail Mary:
“Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb;
and whence to me that the mother of my Lord come to me?
Because, as soon as the voice of your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb jumped for joy.
Happy is she who has believed that
the things that were spoken to her from the Lord would be fulfilled!”
2 SAINT HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
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The medieval Benedictine nun wrote several prayers to be said at the monastery she founded in Rupertsberg (in modern-day Germany). This is one of the Marian hymns of her:
God save you, noble and glorious virgin,
pupil of chastity, substance of holiness, which pleased God,
since this heavenly infusion took place in you,
since the heavenly Word in you was clothed with flesh.
Candid lily,
which God considered before any other creature.
Oh, most beautiful and sweetest,
how God was pleased with you,
since with his breath he enveloped you,
and thus you nursed his Son.
Your belly exulted,
since all the celestial harmony resonated for you,
because, O Virgin, you carried the Son of God,
while your chastity before God shone.
Your insides exulted.
As does the grass on which the dew falls
because it infuses it with greenness;
Likewise it was done in you, Mother of all jewels.
May the entire Church shine with joy
and resonate harmoniously through Mary,
most sweet and praiseworthy Virgin, Mother of God.
Amen.
3 SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
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On the day Catherine of Siena turned 32, the Feast of the Annunciation in 1379, this Dominican laywoman wrote a passionate prayer . This exaltation is a part of it:
Oh Mary, Mary, temple of the Trinity!
Oh Mary, bearer of Fire!
Mary, you offer mercy,
you germinate the fruit,
you redeem the human race,
because by suffering your flesh in the Word
the world was redeemed again.
Oh Mary, fertile land!
You are the new plant from which we receive
the fragrant flower of the only begotten Word, Son of God,
since in you, fertile land, that Word was planted.
You are the earth and you are the plant.
Oh Mary, chariot of fire!
You carried the fire hidden and veiled under the dust of your humanity.
Oh Mary! Vessel of humility
in which is and burns the light of true knowledge
with which you elevated yourself above yourself,
and for that reason you pleased the eternal Father.
4 SAINT THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS
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The Carmelite Saint Teresa of Lisieux has simple words for her Mother in Heaven. Like this poem she wrote to Our Lady of Perpetual Help with memories of a retreat she made in March 1897.
Virgin Mary, on the Celestial Shore
after exile I will always come to see you
but here below your sweet Image
It is my Perpetual Help!
When I was wise and very obedient
it seemed to me that you were smiling at me
and if at times I was a little bad
I thought I saw that you were crying for me…
By granting my naive prayer
you showed me your motherly love.
Contemplating you I found on earth
a sample of the delights of Heaven.
When I struggle, oh my dear Mother,
in the struggle you strengthen my heart
because you know: in the evening of this life
I want to offer priests to the Lord!
Always, always Image of my Mother,
yes, you will be my happiness, my treasure.
And I would like in my last hour
for my gaze to focus on you again.
Then flying to the heavenly shore
I will sit, Mother, on your lap. Then I will be able to receive your sweet kisses
without sharing !
5 BLESSED CONCEPCIÓN CABRERA DE ARMIDA
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The Mexican blessed Conchita Cabrera, a mystical mother of a family, dedicated these words to the Virgin Mary on March 9, 1910, part of a prayer of consecration that she recorded in her spiritual diary.
I want to empty myself into you, Mary, I want to take your likeness,
and may your lips, your eyes, your ears, your chest, your hands, your feet, your heart, be mine today forever!
I want to love, even though I don’t deserve it, like you loved,
and feel like you felt!
I want to drink your secrets, receive your confidences, enter your soul,
listen to your heartbeat, guess your thoughts,
feel the contact of your maternal heart, Mother, Mother,
and immerse myself in that bottomless sea of your prerogatives,
your virtues, of your nameless excellencies!
I want to be your friend, your companion, your slave, your sister, your servant, but more than that, your daughter! Oh yeah! your daughter,
with your likeness, with your blood, with your manners, with your inner physiognomy,
with your humility and patience, with your sweetness and charity!…
I need you to live, to sanctify myself, to drink your sap,
so that you put the sweet fruit of your Jesus in my arms!…
I want to live to the rhythm of your desires, wants, breaths and heartbeats!
I don’t want to have more will than yours, of course, if you are my Mother!
I would like… oh my Virgin more than Beloved!
I don’t know what great and sublime thing I would like to have to offer you,
or if I know; I have a treasure, yours, Mary: a Jesus…
a Word made flesh that drives me crazy, that makes me fall in love!
Either take it from my heart, or lend me yours to house it!
6 SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA
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The founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979, had a natural and close relationship with her Mother in Heaven, which she expressed in prayers such as “Mary, lend me your Immaculate Heart” and “Keep me in your purest heart.” ”. She also often prayed the Remember and recommended addressing Mary with this prayer:
Mary, Mother of Jesus and of all who participate in his priestly mystery,
we turn to you as children who turn to their Mother.
We are no longer children, but adults who with all their hearts desire to be children of God.
Our human condition is weak; That is why we come to beg your maternal help
to overcome our weaknesses.
Pray for us, so that, in our turn, we may be people of prayer.
We invoke your protection so we can remain free from all sin.
We call upon Your love so that love may reign,
and we may be compassionate and forgiving.
We invoke your blessing so that our priests can be like the image of
your Son, Lord and Savior our Jesus Christ.
Amen.
