Prayer to Mary, by de Grandmaison

Holy Mary,  Mother of God, 

preserve in me the the heart of a child, 

pure and clean like spring water; 

a simple heart that does not remain absorbed in its own sadness;

a loving heart that freely gives with compassion;

a faithful and generous heart that neither forgets good nor feels bitterness  for any evil. 

Give me a sweet and humble heart that loves without asking to be loved in return,

happy to lose itself in the heart of others,

sacrificing itself in front of your Divine Son;

a great and unconquerable heart, which no ingratitude can close and no indifference can tire;

by a heart tormented  by the glory of Christ,

pierced by his love with a wound that will not heal until heaven.

Life Promises Life, by Vincent Nagle, p.26