O Mary

O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be?  For neither before you was any like you, nor shall there be after.  Daughters of Jerusalem, why do you marvel at me?  The thing which you behold is a divine mystery.

O Mary, Virgin Mother of God, you hold aloft as in a monstrance the Fire of Glory, the Incarnate Son of the Father.  Help us to gather all the persons, circumstances, events of our lives, of our world, in our time and in all times and bring them to you to hold before the Lord to be transformed by Him for the glory of God.  Amen!

LET ME NOT FEAR, O LORD.  NOT FEAR WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS IRREMEDIABLY LOST, NOT FEAR WHEN ALL THE POWERS ON EARTH APPEAR TO BE IN THE HANDS OF YOUR ENEMIES.  LET ME NOT FEAR BECAUSE I AM AT THE FEET OF OUR LADY WHERE THE TRUE FOLLOWERS OF YOUR CHURCH ALWAYS REGROUP, AND WILL ALWAYS REGROUP FOR NEW VICTORIES. (1)

BEHOLD A MYSTICAL ROSE FROM THORNY STEM HAS SPRUNG; OF DAVID’S LINEAGE GOD CHOSE TO GIVE TO THE WORLD HIS SON.  ALL HAIL, O HOUSE OF GOLD OF WHOM ANCIENT PROPETS FORETOLD; YOUR ROYAL PRAISES WE SING; YOUR WOMB WAS THE COURT OF OUR KING.
BEHOLD THE CAUSE OF OUR JOY, WHO BORE THE INFINITE CHILD; TO SATAN’S KINGDOM DESTROY, AND MEN TO GOD RECONCILE.  ALL HAIL, O GATE OF HEAVEN THROUGH ALL GRACES ARE GIVIN; THROUGH YOU SALVATION CAME; EVER PRAISED AND BLESSED BE YOUR NAME. (2)

1) Plinio Correa de Oliveira
2) R. Cross