Pope Pius XII’s Prayer to Our Queen
Pope Pius XII
Prayer to Our Queen
Out of the depths of this valley of tears, through which suffering humanity painfully struggles – up the billows of this sea, endlessly buffeted by the waves of suffering – we raise our eyes to you, Most Beloved Mother Mary, to be comforted by the contemplation of your glory and to hail you as Queen and Mistress of Heaven and earth, Queen and Mistress of mankind.
With legitimate filial pride, we wish to exalt your queenship. We wish to recognize it as due to the sovereign excellence of your entire being, O Most sweet True Mother of Him Who is King by right, by inheritance and by conquest.
Reign, O Mother and Mistress, by showing us the path of holiness. Show us by guiding and assisting us that we may never stray from it.
In the heights of heaven, you exercise your primacy over the choirs of angels, who acclaim you as their sovereign, and over the legions of saints who delight in beholding your dazzling beauty. So, too, reign over the entire human race above all by opening the path of faith to those who do not yet know your Divine Son. Reign over the Church which acknowledges and extols your gentle dominion and has recourse to you as a safe refuge amid the calamities of our day.
Reign Over Our Hearts, That We May Love Nothing But What You Yourself Love
O, Blessed Mother, reign especially over that part of the Church which is persecuted and oppressed; give it strength to bear adversity, and constancy never to yield under unjust compulsion. Give us light to avoid falling into enemy snares, firmness to resist overt attack. And at every moment unwavering faithfulness to your kingdom. Reign over men’s minds, that they may seek only what is true; over their wills, that they may follow solely what is good; over their hearts, that they may love nothing but what you yourself love.
Reign over individuals and over families, as well as over societies and nations; over the assemblies of the powerful, the counsels of the wise, as over the simple aspirations of the humble.
Reign in the streets and the squares, in the cities and the villages, in the valleys and the mountains, in the air, on land and on the sea; and hear the pious prayer of all those who recognize that yours is a reign of mercy, in which every petition is heard, every sorrow comforted, every misfortune relieved, every infirmity healed, and in which, at a gesture from your gentle hands, from death itself there arises smiling life. Obtain for us that all who now, in every corner of the world, acclaim and hail you Queen and Mistress, may one day in heaven enjoy the fulness of your kingdom in the vision of your Divine Son, Who with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Pope Pius XII
The pope who canonized St. Louis de Montfort.
Reign, O Mother and Mistress, by showing us the path of holiness. Show us this path, guide and assist us that we may never stray from it.
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