(Diary Note 161)

Mary, Immaculate Virgin,
Pure crystal for my heart,
You are my strength,
O secure anchor,
You are a shield
and protection for a weak heart.
 
O Mary, you are pure and unparalleled,
Virgin and Mother at one and the same time;
You’re beautiful as the sun, by nothing defiled.
Nothing is worthy of comparison
to the image of Your soul.
 
Your beauty enthralled
the Thrice-Holy One’s eye,
That He came down from heaven,
forsaking th’eternal See’s throne,
And assumed from Your Heart Body and Blood,
Hiding for nine months in the Virgin’s Heart.
 
O Mother, Virgin, this will no one comprehend,
That the infinite God is becoming a man;
It’s only love’s and His inscrutable mercy’s purpose.
Through You, Mother —
it’s given us to live with Him for ever.
 
O Mary, Virgin Mother and Heaven’s Gate,
Through You salvation came to us;
Every grace to us
streams forth through Your hands,
And faithful imitation of You only
will sanctify me.
 
O Mother, Virgin — most beautiful Lily.
Your Heart was for Jesus
the first tabernacle on earth,
And that, because Your humility was the deepest,
Wherefore You were raised
above Angel choirs and Saints.
 
O Mary, my sweet Mother,
To You I turn over my soul,
my body and my poor heart.
Be the safeguard of my life,
Especially at death’s hour, in the final fight 

Amen