Mary, Mother of God, in the joyful mysteries of your Holy Rosary, in which the Word was made flesh and you, the Inviolate Mother performed your maternal duties with holy joy; You became the Mother of a Son who is Almighty, eternal and infinite in all perfection, equal to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. You became the Mother of God without ceasing to be a Virgin.

By your Divine Motherhood you formed the closest bond of union with the adorable Trinity. The Privileged Daughter of the Father, the Loving Mother of the Son and the Immaculate Bride of the Holy Spirit. By your Motherhood you acquired mother’s power over your Divine Son and you saw yourself raised above angels and saints.

The repetitions of the Hail Mary’s keep before my mind the importance of the Incarnation and your share in it. When you agreed to the proposal made by the Angel, you gave Jesus to us by your own free act. You spoke on behalf of our human nature and by your consent, sealed forever the union between our human nature and the son of God. Thus in consenting to the Incarnation, you co-operated directly in the redemption of the world. For the incarnation was the first step in the work of our salvation.

Mary, the sorrowful mysteries of your Holy Rosary remind me of the sorrows, the agony and death of the suffering Christ, the price at which salvation of our race was accomplished. As Mother of God, you became a co-operator in the redemption of mankind.

It was you who prepared the Holy Victim who was offered to the Eternal Father in expiation of our sins. From you was derived the precious Blood which was shed upon the cross for our salvation and the Adorable body which, after having been made the price of our redemption, has become the food of our souls in the Holy Eucharist. From the moment of His entering the world your loving son, Jesus was the price of our salvation. He took to Himself our human flesh and became man in order that He might give Himself up to death on the cross. From the very first, He offered Himself as our ransom and the victim for our sins. He did so through your hands when you presented Him at the temple and in union with Him, you offered yourself to the Father on Calvary.

From the cross Jesus gave you to me to be my mother, and I was entrusted to your care as a child. You brought me forth spiritually to a new life of grace. This was your spiritual motherhood. Mary, the glorious mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary remind me of the death of your Son, Jesus Christ, His triumph over death, His ascension into heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit. These mysteries remind me of your own Glory and that of Your Son. And both as Mother of God and Mother of men, and as Queen of heaven and earth, you serve as a bond between God and man.

As God-man, Jesus is the perfect mediator between God and man, because He alone could in all, justice merit our reconciliation with God as well as the grace, which God would impart after the reconciliation. You are a Mediatrix in union with Christ from whom your mediatorship draws all its power. With Christ you have contributed to our redemption. You consented to be the Mother of the Redeemer at the Annunciation, and thus you were willing to share in the sufferings of the Redeemer. You merited the title of Co-redemptrix above all, by your union with Christ in His Redemptive Sacrifice. After Jesus, no one suffered as you did. Now your action is above all one of intercession. In your contemplation of God, you behold our needs with our prayers and you beg God to grant these favours for us.

May the faithful recitation of my Rosary be a sign of my gratitude to Jesus and to you for all you have done for me in bringing about my redemption. May the Rosary also be a means of obtaining all I need for the sanctification and salvation of my soul (here mention your request silently).