Please Pray for Me

O untouchable, and forever blessed, singular and incomparable virgin Mary, Mother of God, most pleasing temple of God, the sacred place of the Holy Ghost, the gate of the kingdom of heaven, by whom next unto God the whole world liveth. Incline, O Mother of Mercy, the ears of thy pity unto my unworthy supplications, and be unto me, a most wretched sinner, a pious helper in all things. O most blessed John, the familiar friend of Christ, which of our same Lord Jesus Christ was chosen a virgin, and among the rest more beloved, above all instructed in the heavenly mysteries, for thou wast made a most worthy apostle and evangelist: thee also I call upon with Mary, mother of our same Saviour, that thou wouldst vouchsafe to afford me thine aid with hers. O ye two celestial jewels, Mary and John. O ye two lights divinely shining before God. Chase away by your bright beams the clouds of my offenses. For ye are those two in whom God the Father through his own Son specially built a house for himself, and in whom God's Son himself because of the merit of most sincere virginity, hanging upon the cross confirmed the privilege of his love, saying thus to the one of you: woman, behold thy son: and then unto the other: behold thy mother. In the sweetness therefore of his most sacred love, through which at that time by our Lord's mouth, as mother and son ye were joined together, I, a most wretched sinner, recommend this day to you two both my body and soul that at all hours and moments, inwardly and outwardly, ye would vouchsafe to be firm guardians, and before God devout intercessors: for I believe firmly and say without any doubt that he who wants to be yours wishes to belong to God, and he who does not want to be yours does not want to belong to God. Whatever ye ask from him ye obtain without delay. Therefore, by this so very influential power of your worthiness, petition I beseech on behalf of me, a sinner, for the deliverance of my body and soul. Procure, I beseech, by your sacred prayers, that the nourishing spirit, the best giver of graces, may vouchsafe to visit my heart and dwell therein, which may thoroughly purge me from all filth of vice, lighten and adorn me with sacred virtues: cause me perfectly to stand, and persevere in the love of God and my neighbor, and after the course of this life the most benign Comforter, greatest bestower of graces, may bring me to the joys of his elect, who with God the coeternal and consubstantial Father liveth and reigneth world without end. Amen.