Our Lady of Sorrows and the Passion – Prayer

Holy Mary, Mother of sorrows, whose heart was pierced with a fresh sword of grief at every Station on the Way of the Cross, obtain for us, we beseech thee, O most loving Mother, a perpetual remembrance of our Blessed Savior’s cross and death, and a true and tender devotion to all the mysteries of His most holy Passion.
Obtain for us the grace to hate sin, even as He hated it in the Agony of the Garden; to endure wrong and insult with all patience, as He endured them in the judgment-hall; to be meek and humble in all our trials, as He was before His judges; to love our enemies even as He loved His executioners, and prayed for them upon the cross; and to glorify God and do good to our neighbors, even as He did in every mystery of His sufferings.
O Queen of martyrs, who, by the dolors of thy Immaculate Heart on Calvary, didst merit to share the Passion of our Blessed Redeemer, obtain for us some portion of thy compassion, that for the love of Jesus Crucified, we may be crucified to the world in this life. And in the life to come, may, by His infinite merits and thy powerful intercession, reign with Him in glory everlasting.  Amen.

“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water."

- St. Augustine

“I am the Mother of fair love. As a mother who sees her son exposed to the sword of the enemy makes every effort to save him, thus do I, and will I ever do, for all my children, sinful though they be, if they come to me for help.

- Our Lady to St. Bridget of Sweden