your unutterable suffering, have pity on me, a miserable sinner.

O dearest Jesus, show to )hy eavenly *ather all the wounds and anguish which )hou didst bear for me' O sweetest +irgin, show im all the tears which thou didst shed for me' O $on' O Mother' show im all the agony, all the anguish of heart which you endured for me. O Mary , I beseech thee, through this most painful mystery of thy dolors, obtain mercy for me from ,od the *ather, and ta#ing the mangled and dead %ody of thy beloved $on into thy maternal arms, offer im to the -ternal *ather in the same manner as thou didst once offer im is pierced $ide and thy own bro#en eart, is bitter sufferings and thy painful compassion, is and thy burning tears, is and thy sighs, in a word, everything which Jesus and thou suffered upon earth, that, through these same sufferings, thou mayest obtain mercy and pardon for me. .men.

PRAYER BEFORE A PICTURE OF OUR SORROWFUL MOTHER O most loving Mother of my Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost never reject nor despise anyone who turns to thee with a contrite heart nor refuse to console the afflicted, behold, poor and sinful, I draw near to thy holy image with deep devotion, and beseech thee to obtain for me the grace to honor and love thee with all my strength. O merciful eart of Mary, let me obtain mercy from thee as so many sinners already have obtained it! for what is thy eart, O Mary, but a eart of mercy" ow is it possible, then, that grace could be refused to anyone who implores it from this seat of mercy" Most tender and compassionate Mother, thou #nowest how much an afflicted heart is in want of compassion, because the intensity of thy sufferings was so great that all man#ind together would have been incapable of supporting it. Oh, what unutterable bitterness filled thy soul when thou didst contemplate the disfigured form of thy beloved $on, when thou didst receive is mangled and lifeless %ody into thy virginal arms, and pressing It tenderly to thy maternal heart, didst embrace It countless times, didst bedew It with a stream of burning tears, and finally didst rest thy agoni&ing heart on the wounded brow of thy Jesus' I recall to thy mind this thy ine(pressible anguish, and beseech thee to obtain for me the pardon of my sins. O Mary, intercede for me with Jesus, whom thou didst bear in thy arms' O Jesus' O Mary' by

Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mar

/ray one ail Mary while meditating on each of the $even $orrows of Mary0 1. )he prophecy of $imeon. 2. )he flight into -gypt. 3. )he loss of the Child Jesus in the )emple. 4. Mary meeting Jesus carrying is Cross. 5. )he Crucifi(ion. 6. Mary receiving the %ody of Jesus from the Cross. 7. )he %ody of Jesus being placed in the tomb. )hen pray three ail Mary8s in remembrance of the tears Mary shed because of the suffering of er 9ivine $on. Con!l"#$n% pra ers& /ray for us, O Most $orrowful +irgin, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Lord Jesus, we now implore, both for the present and for the hour of our death, the intercession of the Most %lessed +irgin Mary, :our Mother, whose oly $oul was pierced during :our /assion by a sword of grief. ,rant us this favor, O $avior of the world, ;ho lives and reigns with the *ather and the oly $pirit forever and ever. .men. Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Every 15th of September