Petition to the Madonna del Carmine to be recited today 16 July

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O glorious Virgin Mary, mother and deco-ro of Mount Carmel that your goodness has chosen as a place of your particular benevolence, on this solemn day that recalls your maternal tenderness for those who piously wear the holy Scapular, we raise to you the most ardent prayers, and with the confidence of children we implore your patronage.

See, O most holy Virgin, how many temporal and spiritual dangers from all sides hold us: take pity on us. The title with which we are celebrating you today calls the place chosen by God to reconcile with his people when he repented wanted to return to him. In fact, the sacrifice that after long drought got the restorative rain, a sign of the re-established benevolence of God, rose from Carmel by the hand of the prophet Elijah: the holy prophet announced it with joy when he was seen rising from the sea a white cloud that soon covered the sky. In that little cloud, or immaculate Virgin, your Carmelite children have recognized you as an immaculate sort of sinful humanity and that in Christ you have given us an abundance of all good. On this solemn day be a new source of graces and blessings for us. Hello, Regina ...

To show us even more your affection, O our very loving mother, you recognize as a symbol of our filial devotion the little dress we piously wear in your honor and that you consider as your garment and sign of your good. -volenza.

Thank you, O Maria for your scapular. How many times, however, have we made little account of it; how many times have we unworthily worn that dress which was to be a symbol and a call to your virtues for us!

But forgive us, O our loving and patient mother! And make sure that your holy Scapolar is defending us against the enemies of the soul, recalling the thought of you, and of your love, in the moment of temptation and danger.

O our sweetest mother, on this day that remembers your continuous goodness towards us who live the spirituality of Carmel, moved and trusting, we repeat the prayer that for centuries the Order has consecrated to you : Flower of Carmel, prodigious vine, splendor of the sky: Virgin Mother, mild and sweet, protect us your children who propose to climb the mystical mountain of vir-tù with you, to reach eternal bliss with you! Hello, Regina ...

Your love for the children covered with your Scapular is great, O Mary. Not content to help them to live in a way to avoid the eternal fire, you also take care to shorten the penalties of purgatory for them, to speed up entry into paradise.

This is a grace, o Maria, which leads to a long series of graces, and truly worthy of a merciful-know mother, as you are.

And here: as Queen of purgatory you can mitigate the pains of those souls, still kept away from the enjoyment of God. Have mercy therefore, O Mary, of those blessed souls. On this beautiful day, reveal the power of your maternal intercession to them.

We beg you, O pure Virgin, for the souls of our loved ones and for all those who in life were ascribed to his Scapolar and endeavored to bring him piously. By them you obtain that, purified by the blood of Jesus, they are admitted to eternal happiness as soon as possible.

And we pray for you too! For the last moments of our earthly life: assist us pitifully and vain the attempts of the infernal enemy. Take us by hand, and do not leave us until you see us close to you in heaven, eternally saved. Hello, Regina ...

But many and many thanks we would like to ask you again, O our sweet mother! On this day, which our fathers dedicated to gratitude for you, we torture you to benefit from us again. Impetrate the grace of never staining our soul with grave guilt, which has cost so much pain and pain to your divine Son. Free us from the evils of the body and the spirit: and if they are useful to our spiritual life, grant us also the other graces of a temporal order that we have in mind to ask you for us and for our loved ones. You can fulfill our requests: and we are confident that you will grant them in the measure of your love, for the love with which you love your Son Jesus, and we, who have been entrusted to you as children.

And now bless all, O mother of the Church, decoration of Carmel. Bless the Supreme Pontiff, who in the name of Jesus guides the people of God, pilgrims in the earth: grant them the joy of finding a prompt and filial response to all his initiatives. Bless the Bishops, our Pastors, and the other priests. Support with particular grace those who zeal your devotion, especially in proposing your Scapolar as a symbol and incentive to imitate your virtues.

Bless the poor sinners, because they too are your children: in their life there has certainly been a moment of tenderness for you and of nostalgia for the grace of God: help them find their way back to Christ the Savior and the Church that attends them to reconcile them to the Father.

Finally, bless the souls of purgatory: release those who have been devoted to you with concern. Bless all your children, O our sovereign comforter. Be with us in joy and sadness, in life and in death: and the hymn of thanksgiving and praise that we raise on earth, may we be granted, by your intercession, to continue following him in heaven to you and your Son Jesus, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen. Ave Maria…

John XXII, while he was Apostolic Nuncio in France, confided: "By means of the Scapular I belong to your Carmelite family and I greatly appreciate this grace as the assurance of a very special protection of Mary".