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A Salutation to the
Blessed Virgin Mary
by St. Francis of Assisi
Hail Lady, Holy Queen, Holy Mary
Theotokos,
who art the Virgin made church and the
One elect by the Most Holy Father of Heaven,
whom He consecrated with His Most Holy
beloved Son and with the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete;
Thou in whom was and is all fullness
of grace and every good.
Hail His Palace;
Hail His Tabernacle;
Hail His Home.
Hail His Vestment;
Hail His Handmaid;
Hail His Mother
And hail all you holy virtues, which through the grace
and illumination of the Holy Spirit
are infused into the hearts of the
faithful, so that from those unfaithful you make them
faithful to God.
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An Act of Total
Consecration to the Immaculate Virgin
By St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
O Immaculate Queen of Heaven and
earth, Refuge of sinners and Our most loving Mother, to
whom God willed to entrust the entire order of Mercy, I,
an unworthy sinner, cast myself at Your feet, humbly
begging You to be so good as to accept me wholly and
completely as Your possession and property, and to do
with me and with all my powers of soul and body, with my
whole life, death, and eternity, whatever pleases You.
If it pleases You, use my whole self
without reserve to accomplish what has been said of You:
"She will crush your head" (Genesis 3:15), and also:
"You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole
world" (Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary), so
that I may become a useful instrument in Your immaculate
and most merciful hands for promoting and increasing
Your glory to the maximum in so many strayed and
indifferent souls, and thus extend as much as possible
the blessed Kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
For, wherever You enter, You obtain
the grace of conversion and sanctification, since it is
through Your hands that all grace comes to us from the
Most Sweet Heart of Jesus.
R. Allow me to praise You, O most
Holy Virgin.
V. Give me strength against Your enemies.
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The
Franciscan Crown
(The Rosary of Our Lady's Seven Joys)
Say the Rosary in this manner: Recite 1 Our
Father, and 2 Hail Mary's. Then for each of the
Seven Decades, recite the Mystery, 1 Our Father
and 10 Haily Mary's, followed by the Glory be..
At the end of the Seventh Decade, two more Hail
Mary's are said.
The Seven Mysteries are the
Seven Joys of Our Lady:
1) Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to
the Blessed Virgin Mary at Nazareth.
2) Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to
St. Elizabeth.
3) Birth of Jesus Christ in the grotto of
Bethlehem.
4) Adoration of the Child Jesus by the Three
Holy Magi
5) Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple
by the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph
6) Resurrection of Our Lord on Easter Morning
7) Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into
Heaven.
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