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Madonna Addolorata, Ravello
Photos by New York Scugnizzo
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September 15th is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. I'm commemorating the occasion by reprinting "For the Sorrowful Lady" (Pi l'Addulurata), a prayer from Prayers and Devotional Songs of Sicily, edited and translated by Peppino Ruggeri.(*) The accompanying photos of Madonna Addolorata was taken during my 2010 pilgrimage to Southern Italy.
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Madonna Addolorata, Sorrento
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For the Sorrowful Lady
Of God you heavenly queen
Oh Mother in grief immersed
By you my soul be possessed
And from you a favor granted.
This ungrateful heart is ready
To be wounded and impaled
By your very holy sword.
Throughout my whole life
With sinning I delighted,
Now with sorrow weeping
Of my sins I am repenting,
I no longer want to sin
Better dead and by you consoled.
When to heaven your body ascends
With the precious power you hold
Shows its purity and its might
Mother forever hold me tight.
You must keep your eyes on me
As a mother watchful be,
If to us you are committed
God his pardon will provide
By this rosary that we recite
Glory we expect in paradise.
Who recites it three times a day
In high heaven with Mary will stay,
When at night three times is recited
From painful death one is released.
When for forty days is supplicated
From hell's pain one is liberated.
And who will proffer in sincere devotion
Prays a "credo" to his death and Passion.
(*) Prayers and Devotional Songs of Sicily, edited and translated into English by Peppino Ruggeri, Legas 2009, p.113-114
