Devotion to Our Lady assumed into Heaven and the supplication to be said today, August 15th

O immaculate Virgin, mother of God and mother of men, we believe with all the fervor of our faith in your triumphal assumption in body and soul to heaven, where you are acclaimed queen by all the choirs of angels and by all the ranks of the saints; and we join them to praise and bless the Lord, who has exalted you above all other creatures, and to offer you the yearning of our devotion and our love.

We know that your gaze, which maternally caressed the humble and suffering humanity of Jesus on earth, is satisfied in heaven at the sight of the glorious humanity of uncreated Wisdom, and that the joy of your soul in contemplating face to face the adorable Trinity makes your heart leap with beatific tenderness; and we poor sinners, we implore you to purify our senses, so that we learn, from here below, to taste God, God alone, in the enchantment of creatures.

We trust that your merciful gaze will lower itself on our miseries and on our sufferings, on our struggles and on our weaknesses: that the lips smile at our joys and our victories, that you hear the voice of Jesus tell you about each one of us, as of his beloved disciple: "Behold your son"; and we, who invoke you as our mother, take you, like John, to guide, strength and consolation of our life.

We have the vivifying certainty that your eyes, which wept on the earth irrigated by the blood of Jesus, still turn towards this world prey to wars, persecutions, oppression of the just and the weak; and we, in the darkness of this valley of tears, await from your celestial light and from your sweet pity relief from the pains of our hearts, from the trials of the Church and of our country.

Finally, we believe that in glory, where you reign clothed with the sun and crowned with stars, you are, after Jesus, the joy and gladness of all the angels and all the saints; and we, from this land, where we pass pilgrims, comforted by faith in the future resurrection, look towards you, our life, our sweetness, our hope: attract us with the sweetness of your voice, to show us one day, after our exile, Jesus, the blessed fruit of your womb, o merciful, o pious, o sweet Virgin Mary.

O Mary, taken up into heaven in body and soul, pray for us, who have recourse to you.