All about Mary.

Mary, known as the star of the sea, thanks to your Son you shine forth with a clear, godly light which falls on all creatures.

- Ave rosa sine spinis

O Mary of Good Counsel, inflame the hearts of all who are devoted to you, so that all of them have shelter in you, O great Mother of God. O most worthy Lady, let everyone choose you as teacher and wise counselor of their souls, since you are, as Saint Augustine says, the counsel of the apostles and counsel of all peoples.

- Prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel

Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Grant me and us, unworthy, the dew of thy grace and reveal thy tender mercies.

- Akathist prayer

(Source: simplyorthodox)

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death.

The second half of the popular prayer Hail Mary can be traced back to the 15th century. It was first used in the writings of the Servites, in a Roman Breviary, and in some German dioceses. The text became a standardised part of the prayer sometime in the 16th century and was included in the reformed Breviary of 1568.

Holy Mary, be a help to the helpless, strength to the fearful, comfort to the sorrowful, pray for the people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all holy women consecrated to God; may all who keep your sacred commemoration feel the might of your assistance. Amen.

- Sancta Maria, succurre miseris (early 11th century)

At the Cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful Mother weeping,
close to her Son to the last.

Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,
all His bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword has passed.

O how sad and sore distressed
was that Mother, highly blest,
of the sole-begotten One.

- Stabat Mater

O Blessed Virgin Mary, who can worthily repay thee thy just dues of praise and thanksgiving, thou who by the wondrous assent of thy will didst rescue a fallen world?

What songs of praise can our weak human nature recite in thy honor, since it is by thy intervention alone that it has found the way to restoration?

- O Beata Virgo Maria

O Virgin fair to look upon, lovable to contemplate, delightful to love, who transcendest the capacity of the heart, give thyself, O Lady, to the weak soul who followeth thee.

- St Anselm

My Mother, my confidence.

- Short prayer

O Lady, cease not to watch over us; preserve and guard us under the wings of thy compassion and mercy, for, after God, we have no hope but in thee.

- St Ephrem

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

- Salve Regina

Strongest of armour,
We trust in thy might:
Under thy mantle,
Hard press’d in the fight,
we call to thee.

- Flos Carmeli, Carmelite prayer

Give strength to thy saints, O holy Mother: and thy blessing to those who praise and glorify thee. Let thy hand be ready to help me: and thy ear inclined to my prayer. Let the heavens and the earth bless thee: the sea and the world.

- Psalm 28, Psalter of Mary

The one who seeks grace, finds it in Mary’s hands.

- From a novena prayer

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart,
Mother of the orphan and the destitute,
Hope of the hopeless,
blessed by all generations,
sweeter than honey and the honeycomb,
immaculate lily perfuming the universe with thy perfumes,
mysterious fountain,
safe asylum amid the dangers of the world,
the purest and loveliest of creatures.

- Litany of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart