O most pure and Immaculate Virgin! The most privileged of all creatures! Alone among the descendants of Adam who were never for an instant an enemy of thy Creator! O most perfect image of the holiness of God, Mary conceived without sin! Remember, we beg thee, the purposes for which thou art enriched with graces which no mortal before or since has ever enjoyed. Remember that thou wert miraculously preserved from even the shadow of sin, so that thou mightest become the Mother of God, and thus also the Mother, the Refuge, and the Advocate of mankind. Filled, therefore, with the most lively confidence in thy unfailing mediation, we most humbly implore thine intercession, that we may obtain the triumph of thine Immaculate Heart. Thou knowest, O Mary, how often our hearts are the sanctuaries of God, Who detests iniquity. Obtain for us that angelic purity of heart, which will attach us to God alone, and that purity of intention, which will consecrate every thought, word, and action to His greater glory. Obtain also for us a constant spirit of prayer, silence, and self-denial, that we may recover by penance that innocence which we have lost by sin, and finally come safely to that blessed abode of the saints, where nothing defiled can enter.
