Prayers before and after Meditation 1 Meditations 1. Immaculate! 2 2. Mary's Birthday 6 3. Her Presentation in the Temple 9 4. Her Marriage 14 5. Hail Mary! 18 6. Mary's First Word. ("_How shall this be done?_") 23 7. Her Second Word. ("_Behold the Handmaid of the Lord_") 27 8. Her Third Word. (Her Salutation to Elizabeth) 30 9. Her Fourth Word. (The _Magnificat_) 35 10. Her Silence 38 11. Her Expectation 42 12. The Stable 45 13. The Circumcision of her Son 49 14. Her Purification 52 15. Wise Men and Babes 56 16. Egypt 60 17. Mary's Fifth Word. ("_Son, why hast Thou done so to us?_") 65 18. Nazareth 68 19. Mary's Sixth Word. ("_They have no wine_") 74 20. Her Seventh Word. ("_Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye_") 77 21. "Who is My Mother?" 80 22. The Fourth and Fifth Dolours. (_Meeting JESUS with His Cross, and The Crucifixion_) 84 23. The Sixth and Seventh Dolours. (_The Taking down from the Cross and The Burial_) 88 24. The First Glorious Mystery 92 25. The Second and Third Glorious Mysteries 95 26. Mary's Exile 99 27. Her Death 104 28. Her Tomb 107 29. "Who is She?" (The Fourth Glorious Mystery) 110 30. Mary's Coronation. (The Fifth Glorious Mystery) 114 31. Salve Regina 118 MATER CHRISTI PRAYERS Before Meditation O Holy Ghost, give me a great devotion and a great attraction towards Mary, Thy spouse; a great support in her maternal bosom, and an abiding refuge in her mercy; so that in her and by her Thou mayest form in me JESUS Christ. (_Blessed Grignon de Montfort._)