AUGUST
The Most Pure Heart of Mary
ANT. My heart hath rejoiced in God my Saviour, because He that is mighty hath done great things for me.
- V. And His Mother kept all these words.
- R. In her heart.
Let us Pray
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, Who in the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary didst prepare a worthy dwelling-place for the Holy Ghost, grant in Thy mercy that we who devoutly venerate that most pure heart may be enabled to live according to Thy heart. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer to the Heart of Mary
O HEART of Mary, Mother of God, and our Mother, heart most worthy of love, object of the complacency of the most Holy Trinity and deserving of all the veneration and tenderness of angels and of men, thou art most like the Heart of Jesus, of which thou art the most perfect image. O heart full of goodness and compassion for our miseries, vouchsafe to thaw the ice of our hearts, and make them to be entirely turned to the Heart of our divine Saviour. Pour into them the love of thy virtues; inflame them with that blessed fire with which thou continually burnest. Shut up within thyself the holy Church; guard it and be always its sweet asylum and its tower
