Devotion to Mary: Powerful supplication to untie the knots in our life

The "knots" of our lives are all the problems that we bring very often over the years and that we don't know how to solve: the knots of family quarrels, the incomprehension between parents and children, the lack of respect, violence; the knots of resentment between spouses, the lack of peace and joy in the family; distress knots; the knots of desperation of the spouses who separate, the knots of the dissolution of families; the pain caused by a child who takes drugs, who is sick, who has left the house or who has left God; the knots of alcoholism, our vices and the vices of those we love, the knots of wounds caused to others; the knots of rancor that torments us painfully, the knots of the feeling of guilt, of abortion, of incurable diseases, of depression, of unemployment, of fears, of loneliness ... knots of unbelief, of pride, of the sins of our lives.
The Virgin Mary wants all this to stop. Today she comes to meet us, because we offer these knots and she will untie them one after the other.

Prayer to Mary who unties the knots

Virgin Mary, Mother you have never abandoned a child who cries out for help,

Mother whose hands work tirelessly for your beloved children,

because they are driven by divine love and the infinite mercy that comes from your heart,

turn your gaze full of compassion towards me,

look at the pile of 'knots' that suffocate my life.

You know my despair and my pain.

You know how paralyzed these knots are and I put them all in your hands.

Nobody, not even the devil, can take me away from your merciful help.

In your hands there is no knot that is not untied.

Virgin mother, with grace and your power of intercession with your Son Jesus,

my Savior, receive this 'knot' today (name it if possible).

For the glory of God I ask you to dissolve it and dissolve it forever.

I hope in you.

You are the only consoler that the Father has given me.

You are the fortress of my weak forces, the wealth of my miseries,

the liberation from all that prevents me from being with Christ.

Accept my request.

Preserve me, guide me, protect me.

Be my refuge.

Maria, who unties the knots, pray for me.

The devotion
Pope Francis, when he was a young Jesuit priest during his theological studies in Germany, saw this representation of the Virgin, being deeply affected by it. Back home, he pledged to spread the cult in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina.

The cult is now present throughout South America, particularly in Brazil.

An altarpiece due to the artist Marta Maineri, located in the church dedicated to San Giuseppe in the parish of San Francesco d'Assisi in Lainate (Milan), depicts the Madonna undoing the knots.

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