Mother Mary,
Portray for me the image of a mother invested in her daughter,
This light would flow over my memory, my being and my works.
As I continue in this office of motherhood, I cherish those souls who have presented this image to me.
Those mothers and daughters
who have come into my life as partners in faith,
have been a gift to me.
They have witnessed to me the model of your love.
Please, offer my thanksgiving to Your Son
for bringing them into my life.
Still, I am poor in this image, Mary.
Please, come to me as you did in Lourdes,
when you showed to me that daughters do matter.
Grant me the relationship with you that I seek.
Help me not to waste my days on frivolous concerns of myself.
help me to firmly plant my life in service, stirred by my loyalty to Your Son.
Blessed Mother, please stay with me.
I need your protection. I need you Son.
He is most present to me, when I am close to you.
What may I do for you today?
If I were all that God would will of me, what, then, would you ask of me?
I desire to serve you, today, Oh, Mother of God.
I am praying to become your hand-matron.
As I am today, I am not what I would be
if your tender affections were to come my way.
Please, grant me those graces entrusted to you by your Son.
I will wait and pray.
My love, though incomplete, is all I have to give.
What little of it that I behold, I give it ALL to you, mother of my Savior.
Perfect this love I give and present it to your Son, so that,
by your hand, it is pleasing to Him.
Your daughter,
SharonMarie