O Mary, Immaculate Virgin, 

Pure crystal for my heart, 

You are my strength, O secure anchor, 

You are a shield and protection for a weak heart. 

O Mary, you are pure and unparalleled, 

Virgin and Mother at one and the same time; 

You’re beautiful as the sun, by nothing defiled. 

Nothing is worthy of comparison to the image of Your soul.

Your beauty enthralled the Thrice-Holy One’s eye, 

That He came down from heaven, 

forsaking th’eternal See’s throne, 

And assumed from Your Heart Body and Blood, 

Hiding for nine months in the Virgin’s Heart. 

O Mother, Virgin, this will no one comprehend, 

That the infinite God is becoming a man; 

It’s only love’s and His inscrutable mercy’s purpose. 

Through You, Mother — it’s given us 

to live with Him for ever. 

O Mary, Virgin Mother and Heaven’s Gate, 

Through You salvation came to us; 

Every grace to us streams forth through Your hands, 

And faithful imitation of You only will sanctify me. 

O Mother, Virgin — most beautiful Lily. 

Your Heart was for Jesus the first tabernacle on earth, 

And that, because Your humility was the deepest, 

Wherefore You were raised above Angel choirs and Saints. 

O Mary, my sweet Mother, 

To You I turn over my soul, my body and my poor heart. 

Be the safeguard of my life, 

Especially at death’s hour, in the final fight.

—Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska,

Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, 161