prayer to the virgin mary

Mary, holy virgin mother, I have received your Son, Jesus Christ. With love you became his mother, gave birth to him, nursed him, and helped him grow to manhood. With love I return him to you, to hold once more, to love with all your heart, and to offer to the Holy Trinity as our supreme act of worship for your honor and for the good of all your pilgrim brothers and sisters.

Mother, ask God to forgive my sins and to help me serve him more faithfully. Keep me true to Christ until death, and let me come to praise him with you for ever and ever. Amen.

O María, Virgo et Mater sanctíssima, ecce suscépi dilectíssimum Fílium tuum, quem immaculáto útero tuo concepísti, genuísti, lactásti atque suavíssimis ampléxibus strinxisti. Ecce, cuius aspéctu lætabáris et ómnibus delíciis replebáris, illum ipsum tibi humíliter et amánter repræsénto et óffero, tuis brácchiis constringéndum, tuo corde amándum, sanctissimǽque Trinitáti in suprémum latríæ cultum, pro tui ipsíus honóre et glória et pro meis totiúsque mundi necessitátibus, offeréndum.

Rogo ergo te, piíssima Mater, ímpetra mihi véniam ómnium peccatórum meórum, uberémque grátiam ipsi deínceps fidélius serviéndi, ac dénique grátiam finálem, ut eum tecum laudáre possim per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.