Prayer to Our Lady of Mercy (by St. Augustine of Hippo.)

Blessed Virgin Mary,

who can worthily repay you with praise

and thanks for having rescued a fallen world

by your generous consent!

Receive our gratitude,

and by your prayers obtain the pardon of our sins.

Take our prayers into the sanctuary of heaven

and enable them to make our peace with God.

Holy Mary, help the miserable,

strengthen the discouraged,

comfort the sorrowful,

pray for your people,

plead for the clergy,

intercede for all women consecrated to God.

May all who venerate you

feel now your help and protection.

Be ready to help us when we pray,

and bring back to us the answers to our prayers.

Make it your continual concern

to pray for the people of God,

for you were blessed by God

and were made worthy to bear the Redeemer of the world,

who lives and reigns forever.

Amen