Maria Assunta devotion: today August 15 feast of Our Lady

PRAYER for the RECRUITMENT of the BV MARIA

O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and Mother of men, we believe in your assumption into heaven and soul, where you are acclaimed by all the choirs of angels and by all the hosts of saints. And we join them to praise and bless the Lord who exalted you over all creatures and to offer you the yearning for our devotion and our love. We trust that your merciful eyes will lower themselves on our miseries and our sufferings; that your lips smile at our joys and victories; that you hear the voice of Jesus repeat for each of us: Behold your son. And we invoke you our mother and take you, like John, for the guide, strength and consolation of our mortal life. We believe that in glory, where you reign dressed in sun and crowned with stars, you are the joy and gladness of angels and saints. And we in this land, where pilgrims pass, look towards you, our hope; draw us with the gentleness of your voice to show us one day, after our exile, Jesus, blessed fruit of your womb, or merciful, or pious, or sweet Virgin Mary.

(Pius XII)

PRAYER

(From the preface of the Assumption)

Lord, Holy Father, almighty and eternal God, we thank you and bless you because the Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ, your Son and our Lord, has been assumed in the Glory of Heaven. In her first fruits and image of the Church, you revealed the fulfillment of the mystery of salvation and made a sign of consolation and sure hope shine for your people, pilgrims on earth. You did not want him to know the corruption of the sepulcher She who begot the Lord of life. Amen.

CROWN for the RECRUITMENT of the BV MARIA

(Small crown of twelve angelic salutations and as many blessings)

* I. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you were invited by your Lord to heaven. Ave Maria

* II. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you were assumed by the holy angels in heaven. Ave Maria

* III. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour when the whole heavenly court came to meet you. Ave Maria

* IV. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you were received with such honor in heaven. Ave Maria

* V. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you sat at the right hand of your Son in heaven. Ave Maria

* VI. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you were crowned with so much glory in heaven. Hail Mary

* VII. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour when you were given the title of Daughter, Mother and Bride of the King of heaven. Ave Maria

* VIII. Blessed be Mary, the hour in which you were recognized as the supreme Queen of all heaven. Ave Maria

* IX. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour when all the Spirits and Blesseds of heaven acclaimed you. Ave Maria

* X. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you were constituted Our advocate in heaven. Ave Maria

* XI. Blessed be, O Mary, the hour in which you began to intercede for us in heaven. Ave Maria

* XII. Blessed be. o Mary, the hour in which you will deign to receive everyone in heaven. Ave Maria

Let's pray:

O God, who by turning your gaze to the humility of the Virgin Mary you raised her to the sublime dignity of mother of your only Son made man and today crowned her with incomparable glory, do that, inserted in the mystery of salvation, we too through his intercession we can reach you in the glory of heaven. For Christ our Lord. Amen.