Prayer of St. Annibale di Francia to Mary Immaculate


St. Annibale di Francia

IMMACULATE MARY

Give me the grace to annihilate my will before the Will of Your Divine Son so that the Will of Your Divine Son be mine.

– Kindle my heart with Divine Love! See to it that the purest flame of God’s Love penetrate deeply in my spirit and rout out my selfishness. Give me a tender devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and Your holy Love in order that I love You as You deserve.

– Help me detach perfectly from everything, creatures, and myself, renouncing myself and everything to live only in God.

– My tender Mother, obtain for me a deep humility from God, internal and external humility, a deep knowledge of myself, and a spirit of mortification so that I humble myself before God and creatures. Help me to have contempts and humiliations loved, but myself despised. Mirror of humility grant me the virtue of humility and obedience.

– Grant me the virtue of meekness and sweetness so that I treat people with kindness, especially when I meet the ones against whom I feel repugnance. Give me a simple, merry, sweet, gentle, kind, benign, compassionate, humble and meek heart.

– Impetrate for me a profound contrition and intimate sorrow to make my heart bleed for my offenses against Your Divine Son.

– Grant me a spirit of holy prayer, the grace of meditating upon the sublime truths of faith, especially the Passion of Jesus and Your sorrows. Give me the grace of praying in the occasions of sin. Grant me a holy recollection, the grace of being aware of Your holy presence, and the virtue of silence.

– Grant me from God the holy virtue of spiritual and bodily purity; as well as purity of conscience through humble, frequent, and sincere confession, for the greater glory of God.

– Obtain for me a heroic faith along with a loving, filial confidence in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and in Your Motherly affection.

– Grant me fervent zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, letting me perform the duties of my priestly ministry perfectly. See to it that I celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and recite the Holy Canonical Hours with deep recollection and intimate devotion.

– My tender Mother, give me the virtue of fortitude to prevail over myself through internal and external mortification. O valiant Lady, you have conquered hell.. Give me strength to triumph over the devil, the world, and the flesh.

– You are our life and hope, please grant me holy, final perseverance in the grace of Your Divine Son. See to it that I live and die saintly, and love You in Paradise forever.

Saint Annibale di Francia