Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living  and the salvation of the dying.  O purest Mary, O sweetest Mary, let thy name be henceforth ever on my lips. Delay not , O Blessed Lady, to help me , whenever I call on thee; for, in all my temptations, in all my needs, I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary.

O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion, feel my soul when I utter thy sacred name, or even only think of thee. I thank the Lord for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering thy name. Let my love for thee prompt me  ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.