Begging Our Lady for "perpetual help" to ask for a grace

O Mother of Perpetual Help, many are those who prostrate themselves before your holy image, ask for your patronage.

Everyone calls you "The Relief of the Wretched" and feels the benefit of your protection.

Therefore I too resort to You in this tribulation of mine. You see, dear mother, to how many dangers I am exposed; You see my countless needs.

Affliction and needs oppress me; misfortune and privations bring me desolation in my home; anytime, anywhere I find a cross to carry.

O Mother, full of mercy, have mercy on me and my family, but in a special way help me now, in my need.

Free me from all evil; but if it is God's will that I continue to suffer, at least give me the grace to suffer with patience and love. I ask you for this grace with such confidence (… ..) and this I hope to obtain from you because you are the Mother of Perpetual Help. Amen.