Devotion to Mary: prayer to bless our families

 

O Virgin of Sorrows, I come to implore your maternal assistance with the confidence of a daughter and the trust of being answered. You, my Mother, are the Queen of this house; only in You have I always placed all my trust and I have never been confused.

Also this time, my Mother, prostrate / or at your knees I ask your maternal heart for the grace to reunite my family (or: the family of ...) for the Passion and Death of your Divine Son, for His Precious Blood and for His Cross. I ask you again for your Motherhood, for your pains and for the tears you shed for us at the foot of the Cross.

My mother, I will always love you, and I will make you known and loved, also by others.

For your goodness deign to grant me. So be it.

Three Ave Maria

My mother, my trust.

Salvation of the soul

1. I am in this world to save my soul. I have to realize that life was not given to me because you are looking for success or fun, because you abandon me to idleness or vices: the real purpose of life is only to save your soul. It would be of no use to have all the earth, too, if you lose your soul. We see every day that many people do not spare efforts to obtain power and wealth: but all those efforts will be useless if they cannot save their soul.

2. Salvation of the soul is something that requires perseverance. It is not a good that can be purchased once and for all, but it can be conquered with inner strength, and it can be lost even by moving away from God with simple thought. To arrive at salvation, it is not enough to have behaved well in the past, but it is necessary to persevere in the good until the end. How can I be so sure of saving myself? My past is full of infidelity to the grace of God, my present is unfathomable and my future is all in the hands of God.

3. The end result of my life is irreparable. If I lose a case, I can appeal; if I get sick, I can hope to heal; but when the soul is lost, it is lost forever. If I ruin one eye, I always have another; if I ruin my soul, there is no remedy, because there is only one soul. Maybe I think too little about such a fundamental problem, or I don't think enough about the dangers that threaten me. If I had to present myself to God right now, what would be my fate?

Common sense tells us that we must work hard to ensure the salvation of the soul.

To this end, the wisest thing we can do will be to follow the example of our heavenly Mother. Our Lady was born without original sin, and therefore without all the human frailty that is innate in us; it is full of grace and confirmed in it from the first moment of its existence. Despite this, he carefully avoided all human vanity, every danger, he always led a mortified life, he escaped honors and riches, taking care only to correspond to grace, to practice virtues, to acquire merits for the other life. There is to feel truly confused, at the thought that we, not only think very little about the salvation of the soul, but in addition we continuously and voluntarily expose ourselves to serious dangers.

Let's imitate Our Lady's commitment to the problems of the soul, let's put ourselves under her protection, in order to better hope in the final salvation. We fearlessly face the difficulties, the seductions of an easy life, the impact of passions. Our serious and continuous commitment should encourage us to actively worry about the salvation of our soul.