Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows


Hail, O Virgin most pure, most powerful Queen whom the human family invokes by the sweet name of Mother!

We who cannot invoke an earthly mother either because we never knew her or were very soon deprived of such a sweet and necessary support, we turn to you,
certain that you shall be a mother to us in a special manner.

If, indeed, because of our condition, we arouse in every one feelings of pity, compassion and love, we shall awaken such feelings of pity, compassion and love, we shall awaken such feelings to a much higher degree in you, the most loving, most tender and most merciful of all pure creatures.

O true Mother of all orphans, we take refuge in your Immaculate Heart, certain of receiving therein all the comfort for which our bereft hearts are yearning.