MARY 

PERPETUAL  HELP

Quote for the Day: Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help - June 27, 2010


"Help those
who hope in you,
O Mother of the Sun
which never sets,
O Mother of God.

By your prayers,
ask your divine Son,
we beg you,
to grant rest to this one
who has died
in the place
where the souls of the just rest.

Make this one
a heir of the divine benefits
in the halls of the just,
with everylasting memory,
O Immaculate one. Amen.

Farewell Prayer at the Grave

in a Byzantine Funeral Service

from around the 8th century.