My good Mother, Mother of Perpetual Help, to whom I confide and consecrate myself to you now as I did some years ago, you have helped me so much by faithfully guarding and leading me. My dearest Mother, keep me always close to you in the presence of Jesus and Joseph. Please grant me the constant help of your all-powerful assistance and the grace to ask of it unceasingly…
I give myself, I dedicate myself, I consecrate myself to you; I entrust myself to your care as a helpless little child; may I do whatever pleases you; I abandon myself to you like a baby in your arms; the only thing I ask of you is that I may do the will of your Son at every moment of my life so as to console His Heart as much as possible every moment of my life.
Saint Charles de Foucauld 1858-1916
