Litany to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mediatrix of All Graces

“The salvation of the whole world began with the ‘Hail Mary’. Hence, the salvation of each person is also attached to this prayer.”
St. Louis de Montfort

“It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.”
St. John Chrysostom.

“… Blessed art thou amongst women for thou hast annulled the curse of Eve and hast brought back and ever-lasting blessing.”
Our Lord to St. Mechtilde,
as part of the ‘Cœlicum Ave Maria’ prayer

In response to the latest outrage against almighty God, via the assailing of the dignity  – at very least – of His most Blessed Mother, the SSPX has commenced (and does recommend all the Faithful to participate in) a Crusade of Reparation to commence 16 Nov. and complete on 11 Jan. 2026 (Feast of the Holy Family) and consisting of the Litany of Loreto and associated invocations, intended to be added to the daily Rosary. A downloadable .pdf document can be found via the link and these prayers, together with the Stabat Mater, that sublime hymn which elucidates better than any precisely why the Blessed Virgin is – by very deed – Co-redemptrix, are appended at the bottom of this page (following Litany of Mediatrix of All Graces) in both Latin & English and the reader may choose to add or adjoin his own consolations to our Heavenly Mother, whether as formally co-joined to the Society’s Crusade or otherwise. Your correspondent, a Sedevacantist, regards the SSPX’s ‘Recognise & Resist’ position as untenable (and the society itself as hostage to misguided leadership), however nevertheless as offering valid sacraments and therefore a mercy of God in this long and very dark night of the Great Apostasy.

The 44th Psalm, ‘Mary’s Psalm’, is employed throughout the sacred liturgy on Marian Feasts and contains the verse “instead of fathers, sons shall be born of thee; thou shalt make them princes over all the earth” and Mary’s faithful sons & daughters have mobilised quickly in her defence in the wake of this two-dollar slight by the treacherous heretics, apostates and sodomites who unlawfully occupy the Vatican, playing dress-ups and appelling themselves with titles such as ‘pope’, ‘cardinal’ and ‘bishop’ in order to, it can only be presumed, offend God to incalculable level.

(As St. Peter Damian, doctor of the Church, exclaims in palpable frustration: “For God’s sake, why do you damnable sodomites pursue the heights of ecclesiastical dignity? … you more sharply provoke Him.”)

It may rightly be said that in this whole sorry affair and the responses which it has elucidated may be observed the prophecy of the holy and venerable Simeon, viz. “And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed.” (cf. St. Luke 2, 35); and gives pause for contemplation of the relatively obscure Marian title: Mirror of justice. Indeed, as St. Louis de Montfort reliably informs us:

“The most infallible and indubitable sign by which we may distinguish a heretic, a man of bad doctrine, a reprobate, from one of the predestinate, is that the heretic and the reprobate have nothing but contempt and indifference for our Blessed Lady, endeavoring by their words and examples to diminish the veneration and love of her.”

Staunch defences of the Blessed Virgin, which succinctly explain precisely why the holy Mother of God is indeed Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix, can be found here, here and here and include numerous writings of the popes; and the audacity of these unholy ‘synodal’ fiends to so much as murmur against these writings can not go unnoticed. Nor, presumably, unpunished.

The best response (written decades ago) comes to us from the greatest theologian of the last century, the Dominican, Thomist and champion of orthodox theology in that age when the toxic cancer of Modernist thought & aberration reached its crescendo, the inimitable Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange and which can be found here.

To be sharp to the point, and blunt about it, let there no misunderstanding: ‘co-‘ means ‘accompanying’ and not ‘equal’; a ‘co-star’ is not the ‘lead star’ nor one of them. Pertaining to mediation, Scripture tells us, plainly, that our divine Lord is the sole Mediator between God and man (He was the Man God and thus singularly able to make atonement to God for the sins of men) and Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange explains why that does not preclude additional mediators. At Cana Our Lady made intercession, mediation, with her Son on behalf of those present and on Calvary she stood at the foot of the Cross. In both instances our Lord addressed His Mother as ‘Woman’ to signify her unique role  in Creation and as fore-shadowed by use of the same term in the holy Books of Genesis and Apocalypse. The reader would know that in Genesis Adam, having named the first woman, states “she shall be the mother of all that live” and will note, in the litany appended below, the 3rd invocation to Our Lady reads “True Mother of the living“.  Eve is our mother by nature, but Mary by grace and, therefore, unto salvation.

Indeed, at the alleged apparitions at Akita, a statue of Our Lady was observed to weep 101 times and the seer’s guardian angel is said to have informed her “There is a meaning to the figure 101. This signifies that sin came into the world by a woman and it is also by a woman that salvation came into the world. The zero between the two signifies the Eternal God … The first one (1) represents Eve, and the last, the Virgin Mary.” As the quoted verse given St. Mechtilde by our Lord Himself (top of page), as a ‘re-imagining’ of the Hail Mary, states, “Blessed art thou amongst women for thou hast annulled the curse of Eve and hast brought back and ever-lasting blessing.”

Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange gives a litany of reasons, in point form, as to why the Blessed Virgin is both Mediatrix & Co-Redemptrix and Your correspondent won’t obfuscate his conciseness by attempting to repeat them here, other than to note his identification of the graces given us wretched sinners on account of Mary as being of both ‘ascending’ and ‘descending’ in nature. That is, in context of Jacob’s vision, graces ascending to heaven from earthly merits, and descending from heaven by subsequent intercession.

To consider quickly the former, at the Presentation in the Temple, Mary offered her Child to the eternal Father (signified by the Offertory in the Liturgy) and in so doing, formally, commenced her own martyrdom (she that is Queen of Martyrs) and as the already half-cited words of the holy Simeon show – beyond conjecture – that Christ is the Redeemer and that His Mother’s fate is irrevocably co-joined and a function of the same. The traditional supplicatory ‘Thirty Days’ Prayer to St. Joseph’ gives lucid expression to such: “I ask by that mortal anguish inflicted by the prophecy of holy Simeon, which declared the Child Jesus and His Mother the future victims of their love and our sins.”

This co-suffering is no mere happenstance but rather to a pre-ordained end, viz. that the thoughts of many may be revealed. His words are concise and their consequence unmistakable:

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted; 35 And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed. (St. Luke 2, 34-35)

What does the revelation of thoughts of many hearts portend, precisely? It has already been noted that Our Lady is Mirror of Justice and the reader would know her also to be the Mother of Mercy. As the Psalmist swoons: “Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.” (Ps. 84, 11). Pious tradition holds that St. Dismas, the Penitent Thief, owes his change of heart on the cross (from berating Christ to beseeching His mercy), occasioning his confession and thus salvation, to the Blessed Virgin’s prayers and the ‘back story’ involves the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt where-upon, during that perilous pilgrimage, they were accosted by bandits. Dismas is held to be either the chief criminal (or his infant son, making him the same earthly age as our Lord) and out of recognition of the divinity of the Child Jesus and reverence for Our Lady, the Holy Family were unharmed and detained no further. Fuller analysis can be found here, however let us consider briefly Psalm 44 and the light it shines on the efficacy of Mary’s intercession:

My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the King … Grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever … Because of truth and meekness and justice: thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully. Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of King’s enemies* … They shall remember thy name throughout all generations. Therefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever. (Ps. 44, 2, 3, 5-6, 18)

* i.e. the sharp arrows shall fall into the hearts of the King’s enemies, making the self-same enemies fall to the King.

As the Liturgical Propers give witness, Scriptural variations of the oft-repeated themes ‘they shall remember thy name throughout all generations’ and ‘therefore shall people praise thee for ever’ serve as a straight line of reference to the Magnificat, Mary’s sublime canticle in response to St. Elizabeth’s exclamation “Whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?” at the Visitation (cf. St. Luke 1, 40-55); but found also in the Book of Sirach, as pertaining to the Mother of fair love, an obvious reference to the B. V. M. (cf. Sirach, 24-32) and also with regard to Judith, a pre-figuring of the Virgin, who, having cut off the head of the prince of the enemy of her people, is exalted in like manner (cf. Judith 13, 17-26). And this particular foreshadowing points all the way back to man’s original fall – and promise of his redemption – where Almighty God Himself declares to the wicked serpent: “Because thou hast done this thing, … I will put enmities between thee and the woman … She shall crush thy head” (Genesis 3, 14-15).

If the very crushing of the head of the enemy of our souls, that monster, the first homicide, can not in and of itself be immediately understood as putting to the sword any spurious suggestion that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is at first glance anything other than our Co-Redemptrix, then, as St. de Montfort revealed earlier, one is an abject heretic and sadly not one of the predestined.

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Litany to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces
(Private use only)

KYRIE eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison. Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, ~ have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, ~
God the Holy Ghost, ~
Holy Trinity, One God, ~

Holy Mary, * pray for us.
Mother of God, and our Mother, *
True Mother of the living, *
Mother regenerating men in Christ unto God, *
Mother of piety and of grace, *
Mother of pardon and remission, *
Partner in human redemption, *
Recoverer of a lost world, *
Restorer of the ages, *
Petitioner of all graces, *
Suppliant all-powerful, *
Advocate with thy Son for thy sons, *
Obtainer of the divine mercy, *
Dispenser of heavenly treasures, *
Handmaid of divine blessings, *
Fullness of grace to overflow upon all, *
Succour of the Church Militant, *
Ready helper of those in peril, *
Devoted consoler of the sorrowful, *
Conqueress of all error, *
Protectress of the world, *
Impregnable protection, *
Propitiation of the divine wrath, *
Refuge of all the unhappy, *
Shelter of orphans, *
Assured safety of the faithful, *
Hope of all who despair, *
Stay of the falling, *
Uplifter of the fallen, *
Cheer and comfort of the dying, *
Peace and joy of mankind, *
Our life, our sweetness and our hope, *
Gate of Paradise, *
Mystical stair of Jacob, *
Key of the heavenly kingdom, *
Channel of divine graces, *
Throne of divine clemency, *
Fountain of living waters, *
Fountain sealed by the Holy Ghost, *
Unfailing stream of mercy, *
Asylum of the erring, *
Haven of the shipwrecked, *
Shining star of the sea, *
Light of those who sit in darkness, *
Chamber of spiritual nuptials, *
Mediatrix of men with God, *
Mediatrix after the Mediator, *
Mediatrix reconciling us to thy Son, *
Mediatrix of sinners, staunch and true, *
Mediatrix of all beneath the sky, *
Mediatrix ever pleading for us, *
Mediatrix set between Christ and His Church, *
Mediatrix who hast found favour with God, *
Mediatrix to win salvation for the world, *
Mediatrix of the mysteries of God, *
Mediatrix of all graces, *

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

V/. Pray for us, our powerful Mediatrix,
R/. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.
O LORD Jesus Christ, our Mediator with the Father, Who hast deigned to appoint the Blessed Virgin, Thy Mother, to be our Mother also and our Mediatrix with Thee, graciously grant that whosoever goes to Thee in quest of blessings may be gladdened by obtaining them all through her, Thou Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

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Litany of Loreto
(Authorised for public use)

KYRIE eléison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eléison.

Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, ~ have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, ~
God the Holy Ghost, ~
Holy Trinity, One God, ~

Holy Mary, * pray for us.
Holy Mother of God, *
Holy Virgin of virgins, *
Mother of Christ, *
Mother of the Church, *
Mother of divine grace, *
Mother most pure, *
Mother most chaste, *
Mother inviolate, *
Mother undefiled, *
Mother most amiable, *
Mother most admirable, *
Mother of good council, *
Mother of our Creator, *
Mother of our Saviour, *
Virgin most prudent, *
Virgin most venerable, *
Virgin most renowned, *
Virgin most powerful, *
Virgin most merciful, *
Virgin most faithful, *
Mirror of justice, *
Seat of wisdom, *
Cause of our joy, *
Spiritual vessel, *
Vessel of honour, *
Singular vessel of devotion, *
Mystical rose, *
Tower of David, *
Tower of ivory, *
House of gold, *
Ark of the covenant, *
Gate of heaven, *
Morning star, *
Health of the sick, *
Refuge of sinners, *
Comforter of the afflicted, *
Help of Christians, *
Queen of Angels, *
Queen of Patriarchs, *
Queen of Prophets, *
Queen of Apostles, *
Queen of Martyrs, *
Queen of Confessors, *
Queen of Virgins, *
Queen of all Saints, *
Queen conceived without original sin, *
Queen assumed into heaven, *
Queen of the most holy Rosary, *
Queen of Peace, *

Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

℣. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God,
℟. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.
GRANT, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we, Thy servants, may enjoy continual health of mind and body; and that through the glorious intercession of blessed Mary, ever Virgin, we may be delivered from present sorrow and hereafter enjoy eternal happiness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(7 years trad. indulgence)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
pray for us.
Our Lady Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of
all graces, pray for us.
Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin. Give me strength against thine enemies.

Stabat Mater dolorosa

AT the Cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful Mother weeping,
close to Jesus to the last.

Through her heart, His sorrow sharing,
all His bitter anguish bearing,
Lo! the piercing sword had passed.

O how sad and sore distressed
was that Mother, highly blessed,
of the sole-begotten One.

Woe-begone, with heart’s prostration,
Mother meek, the bitter Passion
Saw she of her glorious Son.

Who on Christ’s dear Mother thinking,
such a cup of sorrow drinking,
Would not share her sorrow deep?

Who on Christ’s dear Mother gazing,
in her trouble so amazing ,
Born of woman, would not weep?

For His people’s sins rejected,
Saw her Jesus unprotected,
Saw His thorns, with scourges rent:

Saw her Son from judgement taken,
Her Beloved in death forsaken,
Till His spirit forth He sent.

Fount of love and holy sorrow,
Mother! may my spirit borrow
somewhat of thy woe profound;

Unto Christ, with pure emotion,
raise my contrite heart’s devotion,
love to read in every wound.

Those five wounds on Jesus smitten,
Mother! in my heart be written,
deep as in thine own they be;

Thou, thy Savior’s Cross who bearest,
Thou, thy Son’s rebuke who sharest.
Let me share them both with thee.

In the Passion of my Maker,
be my sinful soul partaker,
weep till death and weep with thee;

Mine with thee be that sad station,
there to watch the great salvation,
wrought upon the atoning tree.

Virgin, thou of virgins fairest,
may the bitter woe thou bearest,
make on me impression deep.

Thus Christ’s dying may I carry,
with Him in His Passion tarry,
all His wounds in memory keep.

May His wound both wound and heal me,
He enkindle, cleanse, anneal me,
be His Cross my hope and stay.

May He, when the mountains quiver,
from that flame which burns for ever,
shield me on the judgment day.

Jesus, may Thy Cross defend me,
and Thy Mother’s prayer befriend me,
let me die in Thy embrace;

When to dust my dust returneth,
grant a soul that to Thee yearneth,
in Thy paradise a place. Amen.

(7 years trad. indulgence; Jacopone da Todi attrib.
The reader may be interested in the recricopal hymnal ‘By the Crib Wherein Reposing’ (Stabat Mater speciosa) of the same authorship and competently regarded as one of the greatest hymns ever composed, of even greater laud than this, its dolorous counterpart.)

 

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