Prayerful sigh to the Most Holy Mother of God by a Christian woman who hopes for a child

O Most Honorable Mother of God! Have mercy upon me, a poor servant of God and Your daughter, and come to my aid in the time of my illnesses and dangers, with which almost all poor women of Israel bear children. Remember, O blessed among women, with whose joy and love You hastened to the hill side to visit Your relative Elizabeth, when she was hoping for a child, and how wondrously Your gracious visitation was marked upon the mother and the child.

From the ineffable Lord's mercy grant also to me, an imperfect servant of Yours, the happy expectancy of a child. May the Heavenly Creator, by His mercy and grace, grant me the favor that the child now within my heart, when she comes to mind, may with joy, like the holy infant John, worship the Divine Lord and Savior, who, out of love for us sinners, humbled Himself and Himself became a Child. May the unspeakable joy that filled Your immaculate heart at the sight of Your newly born Son and Lord sweeten the sorrow that awaits me amid the pains of childbirth.

World's life, my Savior, born of You, may He rescue me from death at the time of delivery and may He admit the fruit of my womb to the number of God's elect. Hear, O Most Honorable Queen of Heaven, my humble supplication and look upon me, a poor sinner, with the eye of Your divine mercy; do not disgrace my hope in the great compassion of Christ the Savior and Your intercession before Him, and sustain me, helper of Christians, Lord's healer of the sick. By Your maternal veil in the time of my anguish and illness, may I also experience that You are the Mother of Mercy, and may I ever glorify the mercy and all-goodness of Your Son, who never rejects the prayers of the poor and the weak and frees all who turn to Him through You in times of sorrow and sickness. Amen.

Source: kyrios.org.ua