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Dear Mother, make me love Him! Pour into my heart that love that burned in yours for Him. Even though I be clothed in misery, I revere the mystery of your Immaculate Conception, and I ardently wish that through it you may purify my heart so that I may love your God and my God. Cleanse my mind that it may reach up to Him and contemplate Him and adore Him in spirit and in truth. Purify my body that I too may be a tabernacle for Him and be less unworthy of possessing Him when He deigns to come to me in Holy Communion. Amen.

Exerpt from Blessed Be Christ The King (Meditation on the Immaculate Conception) by St. Padre Pio, OFM, Cap.

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Luke 1:43

And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint,

Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint.

If the work is sorrow, if the way is long,

If thou dread’st the morrow, tell it Him in song;

Though thy heart be aching for the crown and palm,

Keep thy spirits waking with a thankful psalm.

All His words are music, though they make me weep,

Infinitely tender, infinitely deep.

Time can never render all in Him I see;

Infinitely tender, human deity.

Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint,

Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint.

Jesus, let me love Thee, infinitely sweet,

What are the poor odors I bring to Thy feet?

Yet I truly love Thee; come into my heart,

And ere long remove me to be where Thou art.

Thus I sing to Jesus when my heart is faint;

So I tell to Jesus comfort or complaint.

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I'll sing a hymn to Mary,

The Mother of my God,

The Virgin of all virgins,

Of David's Royal blood.

O noble Tower of David,

Of gold and ivory,

The Ark of God's Own promise,

The Gate of Heaven to me;

To live, and not to love thee,

Would fill my soul with shame:

When wicked men blaspheme thee,

I'll love and bless thy name.

Hail Holy Mary, Queen enthroned above!

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I stand in this place and lift

Up my eyes to see

The glory of Your face

My God, how wonderful You are

How beautiful Your name

With open arms I run into Your courts

I'll dance before You King of all the earth

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