218. Prayer for Reunion

300 Days, once a day. (See Instructions, p. 1.) IMMACULATE Virgin, who wast preserved by a singular privilege of grace from original sin, look with pity on our separated brethren, who are still thy children, and recall them to the centre of unity. They have, even from afar, preserved a most tender devotion towards thee, O Mother; do thou, who art so generous, reward them for it by obtaining for them the grace of conversion. Vic- torious over the infernal serpent from the first mo- ment of thy being, renew, now that the necessity is more urgent, thy triumphant progress, as of old. If our unhappy brethren continue in separation from our common Father, it is the work of the enemy; do thou, then, unmask his wiles, put his forces to rout, and let his victims see that it is im- possible to obtain salvation except in union with the successor of St Peter. Do thou, who from the first in the plenitude of thy gifts didst glorify Him who worked such great wonders in thee, glorify thy Son, bringing back into his one fold his strayed sheep, making them subject to the guidance of the universal Shepherd, his Vicar on earth; and may it be thy glory, O Virgin, as well to have rooted out 218 Leo XIII, February 1, 1896. ee m TU TOS TERRE MARY 213 of the world all errors, as to have put an end to schisms, and so to have restored peace to the world