Article 2 THE WAY OF PRAYER

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Holy
Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, “and why is this granted
me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”³⁶ Because she
gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust
all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself:
“Let it be to me according to your word.”³⁷ By entrusting
ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with
her: “Thy will be done.”
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray
for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to
the “Mother of Mercy,” the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to
her now, in the Today of our lives. and our trust broadens further, already at
the present moment, to surrender “the hour of our death” wholly to
her care. May she be there as she was at her son’s death on the cross. May she
welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing³⁸ to lead us to her
son, Jesus, in paradise.