Today we ask the Blessing to Our Lady of Pompeii

THE BLESSING OF MARY QUEEN OF THE ROSARY OF POMPEII

to be asked in the beginning and at the end of the WORK, in getting up and going to bed, in entering and leaving the church, at home, and in times of temptations, after having recited the Ave Maria.

Queen of the Rosary of Pompeii, Great Mother of Jesus and my Mother, Bless my soul from heaven.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. So be it.

S. Alfonsò de 'Liguori, so tenderly vowed by the Madonna, resorted to her very often. He did not let the day's action pass without invoking Mary, on the contrary; it could be said, his day was a continuous invocation to the Madonna. "Fortunale those operations, writes the Holy Doctor, which are closed between two Ave Maria!"