(May 20)
Oh, Most Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary! With my lips I will touch Your shrine, or with these words I will confess Your generosity, which is revealed to people: for no one who flows to You goes away empty-handed and is not heard. From my youth I have sought Your help and intercession, and I have never been deprived of Your mercy. See, O Lady, the sorrow of my heart and the ulcers of my soul. And now, kneeling before Your most pure image, I offer my prayers to You. Do not deprive me of Your all-powerful intercession on the day of my sorrow, and on the day of my sorrow intercede for me. Do not turn away my tears, O Lady, and fill my heart with joy. Be my refuge and intercession, O Merciful One, and enlighten my mind with the dawn of Your light. And I pray to You not only for myself, but also for the people who flow to Your intercession.
Keep the Church of Your Son in goodness, and protect it from the evil slander of the enemy who rises up against her. Send Thy help to our archpastors in the apostleship, and keep them healthy, long-living, and rightly ruling the word of the truth of the Lord. As a shepherd, ask God, Your Son, for zeal and vigil for the souls of the verbal flock entrusted to them, and for the spirit of reason and piety, purity and truth of the Divine to be sent down to them.
Ask therefore, O Lady, from the Lord for wisdom and strength for those in power and city rulers, for judges for truth and impartiality, and for all who flow to You the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love.
I also pray to Thee, Most Merciful, to cover our country with the blood of Thy goodness, and deliver it from natural disasters, invasions of foreigners and civil strife, and all who live in it, in They will live a quiet and serene life in abiding love and peace, and having inherited the blessings of the eternal through Your prayers, they will be able to praise God together with You in heaven forever. Amen.