MOTHERS PRAYER TO SAINT ROSE OF LIMA

St. Rose, devout Virgin, fragrant rose in the garden of God,

sweetly blooming amid the thorns of distressing tribulation

and severe mortification,

white as snow in the immaculate innocence of thy heart,

glowing in the love of God that consumed thee. 

Thy devotedness to thy parents was so great

that thou didst labor night and day to relieve their poverty,

and most tenderly cared for them in their sickness. 

Most grateful, most humble daughter,

have pity on me and my children.
 

Teach me, by conduct truly Christian,

to deserve the warmhearted gratitude of my children. 

Teach my children to appreciate my love and the numerous sacrifices

that I cheerfully make for their sake,

teach them to repay the same filial love and obedience,

chiefly by fervant prayers for me.
 

Bless me and my entire family. 

May our hearts be intimately united in adversity. 

Let us not place our happiness in temporal prosperity,

but rather in the hope of a future, eternal blessedness. 

Pray, likewise, O sainted patroness of America,

for all Christian mothers in particular,

that Christian life and sentiments may

everywhere be awakened among them.
 

May these sentiments spread far and wide,

uniting all families into the one great family of God,

in which Jesus Christ may live and rule

with God the Father and the Holy Ghost. 

Amen.