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Come, O Holy Spirit! enlighten the minds of all with Thy sacred light, and inflame their hearts with the fire of Thy love. Teach us what we are to believe, and lead us to practise it. For, alas! what will it avail us to know what is required of us in order to be saved, if we do not endeavour to reduce it to practice?

Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.

Or, Pray to Jesus, Thy Son, for me a sinner.

Or simply, Virgin and Mother.

My Queen and my Mother! to thee I offer myself without any reserve: and to give thee a mark of my devotion, I consecrate to thee during this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, and my whole person: Since I belong to thee, O my good Mother! preserve and defend me as thy property and possession. Amen.