Saint Mary Prayer

(A prayer for all of God's children on Mother's Day)

Saint Mary, Mother of God,
Preserve for me a child's heart,
Pure and transparent as a spring,
A heart simple and straight,
That will never taste unhappiness.

A devoted heart,
Tender and grateful,
A heart loyal and generous,
That will not forget goodness,
And will not hold to evil.

Make for me a humble and patient heart,
Loving without expecting a return.
Content to leave in a beloved heart
The first place for your Son.

A lofty and invincible heart,
That no ignorance will be able to close,
That no insensitivity will be able to expend.

A heart wrought with the glory of Christ,
Pierced with His love,
Whose wound would not heal
Except in heaven.


(Anjela Duval, twentieth century)