339. Seven Prayers

we beseech you, that we too, being inflamed with the fire of charity, may please the Most High, and imitating the love and patience of our sorrow- . ful Mother, may conform ourselves, in adversity as well as in prosperity, to the dispositions of divine Providence. PATER, Ave, Gloria. I BRIGHT models of perfection, who, having turned your backs on the world and renounced whatever it might offer you, did deserve, in answer to your wish of being entirely hidden from men, that Mary herself should point out to you Mount Senario as the placeof your retreatand tranquillity; obtain for us, we beseech you, that, despising the false and contemptible pleasures of the earth, we may, after your example, embrace a life of penance to atone for our sins; and if we cannot, like you, 339 Leo XIII, April 21, 1888 VARIOUS SAINTS 307 serve our Lady in solitude, at least may we show her our sorrow for the grief we have caused her, when by our sins we have renewed the bitter Pas- sion of her Divine Son. Pater, Ave, Gloria. III MOST humble dwellers among the wild rocks of Senario, who, in order the better to imitate the heroic humility of the Handmaid of the Lon», did not only forget the nobility of your birth and the grandeur of your station, but with generosity humbled yourselves so deeply as to go and beg your scanty food in the streets of your native town; obtain for us, we beseech you, that no human re- sp