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| Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza |
O Immaculata, Queen of heaven and earth,
I know I am not worthy to approach you, to fall on my knees before you with my face to the ground, but since I love you so much, I dare to ask you to be so good as to tell me who you are.
The truth is that I desire to know you every day better,
unlimitedly better, and love you ever more ardently, with a boundless passion. Moreover, I desire to reveal to other souls who you are, so that a growing number of people may know you ever more perfectly and love yo ever more passionately, so that you may become the Queen of all hearts, both present and future, and this as soon as possible!
Even today, some do not know even your name.
Others, immersed in the gutter of immorality, do not dare to look up at you. Still, there are also those who believe they do not need you to reach their purpose in life; but there are also those whom Satan — the angel that was transformed into a demon for not recognizing you as his Queen — does not allow to pay you homage.
Many are those who love you, but only few are prepared to do anything you ask of them, like toiling, suffering, and even offering their lives in sacrifice!
O Queen of heaven and earth, I pray that you may soon reign in every single heart and that all men may recognize you as their Mother and God as their heavenly Father, thus loving one another as brothers and sisters. Amen
Reading from the Writings of St. Maximilian Kolbe
“Let us take care to prepare as best we can for the special feast of December 8, to rejuvenate ourselves in the Immaculata. Would that on the occasion of the feast of the Immaculate Conception we become increasingly and more quickly her own, her property, her possession, and so on —in a word hers; hers in the strictest acceptation of the word; most perfectly hers in life, death and eternity!”
Closing Prayer
Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by his death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your presence without sin. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Mary, conceived without sin,
Pray for us who have recourse to you, and for those who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of the Holy Church and those who are recommended to you.
Hymn to Our Lady
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