Immaculati Cordis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis

The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Behold thy mother. JJ Tissot.

O DOMINA mea, sancta Maria, me in tuam benedictam fidem ac singularem custodiam et in sinum misericordiae tuae, hodie et quotidie et in hora exitus mei animam meam et corpus meum tibi commendo. Omnem spem et consolationem meam, omnes angustias et miserias meas, vitam et finem vitae meae tibi committo, ut per tuam sanctissimam intercessionem et per tua merita, omnia mea dirigantur et disponantur opera secundum tuam tuique Filii voluntatem. Amen.    

O HOLY MARY, my Mistress, into thy blessed trust and special keeping, into the bosom of thy tender mercy, this day, every day of my life and at the hour of my death, I commend my soul and body. To thee I entrust all my hopes and consolations, all my trials and miseries, my life and the end of my life, that through thy most holy intercession and thy merits, all my actions may be ordered and disposed according to thy will and that of thy divine Son. Amen.

Written by St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591)

Mulier, ecce filius tuus.
Woman, behold thy son.

Ecce mater tua. Et ex illa hora accepit eam discipulus in sua.
Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. [John 19, 26 & 27]

Totus tuus ego sum 
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum tutus semper sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam