Sire to Make Thee Loved by All Hearts. Amen

An Act of Reparation to the Holy Virgin. How great is my grief, O most holy Virgin Mary, when I consider the injuries which thou receivest every day on the part of men ! How can there be found hearts so hard and impious as to despise thee, who art worthy of the respect and love of angels and men ! And among the very children of the Church, thine own children, there are some, alas ! who feel nothing but coldness and indifference for thee ; who take no pains to testify their gratitude and devotion towards thee; who never honour thee, or invoke thy intercession, or seek to gain thy protection. And how many times have I myself plunged into thy heart the two-edged sword!

O Mother of mercy, I should never dare to lift up my eyes to thee, wert thou not the advocate of sinners. Oppressed with the burden of my infidelities, I come to ask forgiveness at thy feet, for myself and for all mankind. I acknowledge thy glory to be above that of all creatures; I honour, with the Church, thy immaculate Conception and thy glorious Assumption; I believe thy power and all thy perfections to be pro- Ijortioned to thy dignity of Mother of God ; I acknow- edge thee with joy as my advocate, my refuge, and my mother ; I will glory all my life in being of the number of thy most devoted children, and it shall be my hap- {>ines8 to win all hearts to thy love. Vouchsafe, O spot- ess Virgin, to obtain for me grace to imitate thy virtues, and to dwell with thee hereafter in the abode of glory. Amen