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PRAYERS TO OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
Dedication of Oneself to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dearest Mother, I desire to belong to you forever and in the most perfect manner, and through you I want to become the property of the Divine Heart of Jesus for time and eternity.
Behold I dedicate to you this day and all the days of my life, but especially at the hours of my death, my soul with its faculties, my body with its senses, in a word my whole person.
I unite this dedication with the Sacred Life, Passion and Death of Jesus, with all holy Masses, ever to be said, and with all holy communions, ever to be received. I unite it with your glorious merits, dear mother, with the merits of all the saints and elect, and with all good deeds ever to be done.
With these I unite my own prayers, labors and sufferings; also all indulgences I can gain, all merits I can acquire; I place it all into your motherly hands. Purify my gift of every stain, dispose of it, and offer it up to the Holy Trinity in accordance and in union with the infinitely holy intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Help me, dear Mother, to sacrifice myself entirely for the honor of your Son and for immortal souls. Grant, not as a reward but as a favor, that I may ever serve you, and that I may never - not even by purgatory be separated from your Divine Son. O clement, O pious, sweet O Virgin Mary. Amen.