Collection: Life Sweetness and Hope

ARTIST: Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears
Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary.

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In the fourth century, St. Ephraim the Syriac, who prayed to the Blessed Mother in Arabic, declared to her: "Thou indeed art our only hope!" Let us ask the Blessed Mother to intercede for persecuted Christians. May she be, for all of us, our life, our sweetness, and our hope.