Mother of God Novena

Mary, Mother of God 

O Mary, you are pure, of purity incomparable; at once both Virgin and mother, you are beautiful as the sun, without blemish and your soul is beyond all comparison. 

Your beauty has delighted the eye of the Thrice-Holy-One. He descended from heaven, leaving His eternal throne, and took Body and Blood of your heart and for nine months lay hidden in a Virgin's heart. 

O Mother, Virgin, purest of all lilies, your heart was Jesus' first tabernacle on earth. Only because no humility was deeper than yours were you raised above the choirs of Angles and above all saints. 

O Virgin most pure, but also humble, help me to attain deep humility. 

(Diary of St. Maria Faustina, 161, 874, 1306)