When you are about to pray to our Lady

"When you are about to pray to our Lady the Holy Virgin, be firmly assured, before praying that you will not depart from her without having received mercy. To think thus and to have confidence in her is meet and right. She is, the All-Merciful mother of the All-Merciful Lord, the Word, and her mercies, incalculably great and innumerable have been declared from all ages; she is, indeed, an abyss of mercies and bounties."

St. John of Kronstadt