And I recommend myself to thee, O Mary, refuge of sinners and Mother of God.
Prayer to thank God for the Great Gift of Faith.
O Saviour of the world, I return thanks for myself and for all the faithful, my brethren, for having called and admitted me to live in the true faith taught by the holy Catholic Church. " My God," I will say to you with St. Francis de Sales, "great and numberless are the benefits Thou hast bestowed on me, and for which I return Thee my most heartfelt thanks; but how can I sufficiently thank Thee for having enlightened me with the light of faith? O Lord, I tremble when I compare my ingratitude with the greatness of Thy benefits. My Lord, I thank Thee, as much as I am able, for this great gift of faith, and I pray Thee to make its beauties known to all men.
Prayer to Mary.
O Mother of God, increase my faith.
FEBRUARY.— HOPE.
Our hope of salvation, and of receiving the means necessary for its attainment, must be certain on God's part. The motives on which this certainty is founded are the power, the mercy, and the truth of God; and of these the strongest and most certain motive is God's infallible faithfulness to the promise which He has made to us, through the merits of Jesus Christ, to save us, and to give us the graces necessary to our salvation. This promise is conditional; it depends on our actively corresponding to God's grace and praying. He who prays is certainly saved.
Prayer to obtain Confidence in the Merits of Jesus Christ and in the Intercession of Mary.
Eternal Father, I thank Thee for myself, and on behalf of all mankind, for the great mercy that Thou hast shown us, in sending Thy Son to be made man, and to die for our salvation; I thank
