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 tuum, angelo nuntiante, carnem suscipere voluisti: præsta supplicibus tuis, ut qui vere eam Genitricem Dei credimus, ejus apud te intercessionibus adjuvemur.

Conscientias nostras, quæsumus Domine, visitando purifica: ut veniens Jesus Christus Filius tuus Dominus noster cum omnibus sanctis, paratam sibi in nobis inveniat mansionem. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in sæcula sæculorum. R. Amen.

TRANSLATION.

V. Make me worthy to praise thee, Virgin ever-blessed.

R. Give me strength to overcome all thine enemies.

Let us pray.

God, who by the message of an angel didst will that Thy Divine Word should take to Himself human flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary; grant unto us Thy suppliants that we, who believe her to be verily and indeed Mother of God, may be aided by her intercession with Thee.

Visit us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and cleanse our hearts within us; that our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son may, when He comes with all His saints, find a dwelling-place prepared for Himself within us. Who with Thee liveth and reigneth for ever and ever. Amen.

81.

PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus having been firmly established in the Catholic world, it seemed fitting