Novena to our Lady of Sorrows ~ Third Day ~

Prayer in honor of the Third Sorrow of Mary:
The Loss of the child Jesus in the Temple

Most sorrowful Holy Mother, grief, sorrow and anxiety filled thy Immaculate Heart when thou found thou were separated from thy Son on leaving Jerusalem.
For three days He remained lost to thee and to thy Holy spouse Saint Joseph. For three days thou sought Him who was the light of thy life. And for three days thou failed to find Him.
Let me join thee in this pain, O Queen of Martyrs, and obtain for me the grace to never lose Jesus through sin, but to stay united to Him by the help of His grace. If I have the misfortune of falling, may I never doubt His Mercy and always return through the Sacrament of Confession, which He instituted.

Hail Mary..

Prayer to our Sorrowful Mother for a particular grace

Most blessed and afflicted Virgin, Queen of Martyrs, who didst stand generously beneath the holy Cross, beholding the agony of thy dying Son; by the sword of sorrow which then pierced thy soul, by the sufferings of thy sorrowful life, by the unutterable joy which now more than repays thee for them;
look down with a mother’s pity and tenderness, as I kneel before thee to compassionate thy sorrows, and to lay my petition with childlike confidence in thy wounded heart.
I beg of thee, O my Mother, to plead continually for me with thy Son, since He can refuse thee nothing, and through the merits of His most sacred Passion and Death, together with thy own sufferings at the foot of the cross, so to touch His Sacred Heart, that I may obtain my request (pause and pray)
For to whom shall I fly in my wants and miseries, if not to thee, O Mother of mercy, who, having so deeply drunk the chalice of thy Son, canst most pity us poor exiles, still doomed to sigh in this vale of tears? Offer to Jesus but one drop of His Precious Blood, but one pang of His adorable Heart; remind Him that thou art our life, our sweetness, and our hope, and thou wilt obtain what I ask, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Hail Mary, Virgin Most Sorrowful, pray for us. (Seven times)

Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother.
To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer me. Amen