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Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows

Est. September 2018

What words can ever retrace the unwritten anguish that rent the sacred heart of Mary as she looked upon her Divine Son hanging on the cross!  Every wound in Jesus’ body was also a wound in the heart of Mary: every fibre, every nerve throbbing in agony, every pang He suffered re-echoed in her heart.  She endured by her compassion a share in all the anguish of His Passion.  Why did Mary suffer all this?  That she might be our Mother, the Mother of mankind.  She who brought forth her Divine Son without a pang, suffered many a piercing pang when from the cross her dying Son commended to her the sinful sons of men.  That was indeed a motherhood of sorrow she suffered for our sins: for mine.

Seven Prayers to Our Lady of Seven Sorrows

O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the affliction of your tender heart at the prophecy of the holy and aged Simeon.  Dear Mother, by your heart so afflicted, obtain for me the virtue of humility and the gift of the holy fear of God.  Hail Mary …
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the anguish of your most affectionate heart during the flight into Egypt and your sojourn there.  Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of generosity, especially toward the poor, and the gift of piety.  Hail Mary …
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in those anxieties which tried your troubled heart at the loss of your dear Jesus.  Dear Mother, by your heart so full of anguish, obtain for me the virtue of chastity and the gift of knowledge.  Hail Mary …
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the consternation of your heart at meeting Jesus as He carried His Cross.  Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of patience and the gift of fortitude.  Hail Mary …
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the martyrdom which your generous heart endured in standing near Jesus in His agony.  Dear Mother, by your afflicted heart obtain for me the virtue of temperance and the gift of counsel.  Hail Mary …
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the wounding of your compassionate heart, when the side of Jesus was struck by the lance before His Body was removed from the Cross.  Dear Mother, by your heart thus transfixed, obtain for me the virtue of fraternal charity and the gift of understanding.  Hail Mary…
  • I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, for the pangs that wrenched your most loving heart at the burial of Jesus. Dear Mother, by your heart sunk in the bitterness of desolation, obtain for me the virtue of diligence and the gift of wisdom.  Hail Mary…

Let intercession be made for us, we beseech You, O Lord Jesus Christ, now and at the hour of our death, before the throne of Your mercy, by the Blessed Virgin Mary, Your Mother, whose most holy soul was pierced by a sword of sorrow in the hour of Your bitter Passion.  Through You, O Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world, Who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns world without end.  Amen.

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