Lent Prayer of a sinner monk Santa Maria Oh Mary, lovingly powerful, powerfully tender, which has left the source of mercy! Do not stop, I beg you, that mercy where you recognize as true as true misery. For if I, for my part, I am confused by the clumsiness of my sin against thy holy dazzling you, at least, oh my lady! do not have to be ashamed of your feelings of mercy, as an unfortunate natural.
If I confess my iniquity, "I refused your benevolence? If my misery is greater than it should be, what your love will be less than it should?
Oh, my Lady!, The more shameful are my faults in the presence of God and yours, the more people need to be cured thanks to your intervention.
Cura, therefore, very gracious oh!, My weakness, erase this ugliness that offends you, take away, very benign oh! this disease and not feel that you are so disgusted infection: do oh so sweet! has no more remorse and there is nothing that can displease your purity. Do so, O Lady mine! listen.
Cure the soul of a sinner, your servant, by virtue of the blessed fruit of your womb, the one who is seated at the right hand of the Father the Almighty, worthy of praise and glory above all else and all ages. Amen.
San Anselmo de Canterbury
Prayer 5 to Santa Maria, when the soul is oppressed by the torpor of sin