OBTAIN FOR US A DEEP HATRED OF SIN AND PURITY OF HEART

Tomorrow we start a novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (April 28 - May 6). Please feel free to offer it and to invite others to pray with you.  We will be praying for many diverse intentions, but at the same time we are all praying for the specific intention which I have put in bold that Our Lady obtain for us a deep hatred of sin and purity of heart. 

Immaculate Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus and our mother, we have confidence in your powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested often through the Miraculous Medal. We your loving and trustful children, ask you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this novena if they will be for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

(Here privately form your petitions.)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us then a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought, word, and deed may tend to His greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the queen of angels and of men.  Amen.