Litany of the Holy Name of Mary

O Almighty God, Who beholds Thy servants earnestly desiring to place themselves under the shadow of the Name and protection of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, grant, we beseech Thee, that by her charitable intercession, we may be delivered from all evil on earth, and may arrive at everlasting joys in Heaven, through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Prayers in Honor of the Annunciation and the Hypostatic Union of Our Lord Jesus Christ

The Feast of the Annunciation occurs, fittingly, nine months before the Feast of the Nativity. It signals Gabriel’s visitation to Our Lady, where she would give her fiat (“Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.”), showing Mary’s first cooperation with the Divine Will of God. This feast simultaneously celebrates the Hypostatic Union, …