Prayer of Reparation through Our Lady
Most adorable, eternal, loving and all-holy Trinity, we humbly kneel before Thy Face, and with a contrite heart,
earnestly beseech Thee to turn upon us Thy loving countenance, and hear our prayer. We turn with confidence
to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary, and beseech Thee to hear us, not looking upon our
abominable sins, but upon her love for Thee; a love that perfectly resembles that of the Crucified One. For her
love was so great, that Thou didst work a continuous miracle in order that she may not die of love for Thee. For
the love of her, then, and Our Lord Jesus Christ, do we beseech Thee to hear us, and grant what we request of
Thee.
We behold all around us, most loving and eternal Father, the wretched degradation of society, the loss of
innumerable souls to the errors of modernism, and the ever increasing allurements of this world snatching Thy
beloved lambs, members of Thy very fold, from Thy Hands. We behold further the Church in her Passion,
where her Shepherds are few, and her lambs often deprived of the milk of Thy grace in the Holy Sacraments. We
know that our sins have justly provoked Thy wrath, and we have good cause to presume that the resolution to
this crisis has been delayed, due to our ingratitude. We therefore beseech Thee once again, to remember the
Queen of Martyrs and the Man of Sorrows, and graciously accept our attempt to appease Thy Sovereign
Goodness, and receive our sincere request to put an end to these evils we have confided to Thee; to "Convert us,
O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved." (Psalm 79:4)
O Lord, Thou hast loved us from all eternity: "I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn
thee, taking pity on thee." (Jeremias 31:3). Thou hast sent us Thy only-begotten Son to die for our salvation. Thou
hast sustained us in existence with immense love and condescension, despite our audacity in offending Thee, O
Charity, O Source of all good! We sorrowfully acknowledge and proclaim that our ingratitude is monstrous, our
sins are innumerable, and the Blood of Thy Beloved Son has been, by our sins, trodden underfoot.
But we know that “thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true."
(Psalm 85:15). We look upon the Crucified; Our Lord Jesus Christ on His Cross, and behold in His Face the
paleness of death; we hear the beats of His Sacred Heart grow faint, and we are filled with holy confusion and
love at the sight of a God dying for our sins. We know that He has chosen from all eternity to die of love and for
love of us, despite His foresight of our ingratitude and wickedness: “I have a baptism wherewith I am to be
baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?" (Luke 12:50) And His infinite love fills us with hope;
the hope of being faithful to Thee on earth, that we may love Thee with all our hearts in union with the Blessed
Queen of Heaven, and all the heavenly court for all eternity.
Accept, then, all-holy and adorable Trinity, the humble homage of our hearts. For we unite our hearts with the
infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary, and that of the Holy Sacrifice, which
is renewed daily upon our altars. We offer Thee our hearts, filled with a burning longing to be perfectly contrite
for all of our sins. Graciously satisfy this longing, for the sake of Thy Crucified Son, and accept the total offering
of our wills we give to Thee through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. We were made for Thee, O
God of mercies!... We remind Thee of the prayer of Thy Beloved Son at the hour of His Passion: “And now
glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee." (John 17:5)
With Our Lord Jesus Christ do we utter the same, in this our Passion; the Passion of Thy Church, Spouse of the
Immaculate Lamb. And we beseech Thee that we Thy children may truly convert and glorify Thee...that we may
carry this cross of the crisis, along with our own little crosses after the Man of Sorrows, our Saviour, that we may
be united to Thee to share in Thy glory for all eternity, world without end, Amen.