Daily Prayer
Prayed each of the nine days
O most holy and afflicted Virgin, Queen of Martyrs, you stood beneath the Cross, witnessing the agony of your dying Son. Look with a mother's tenderness and pity on me, who kneel before you to venerate your sorrows, and place my requests with filial confidence in the sanctuary of your wounded heart. Present them, I beseech you, on my behalf to Jesus Christ, through the merits of His own most sacred Passion and Death, together with your sufferings at the foot of the Cross. Through the united efficacy of both, obtain the granting of my petition [here name your request]. To whom shall I have recourse in my wants and miseries if not to you, Mother of Mercy? You have drunk so deeply of the chalice of your Son that you can compassionate our sorrows. Holy Mary, your soul was pierced by a sword of sorrow at the sight of your Son's Passion. Obtain for me, then, a true and hearty sorrow for my sins, patience in my trials, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.