Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to your protection,
implored your help or sought your intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly to you,
O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;
to you I come,
before you I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in your mercy, hear and answer me.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, who has deigned to call me to the Ranks of the Equestrian
Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, I humbly supplicate Thee, by
the intercession of the most Blessed Virgin Mary, of Saint Joseph, Saint
Peter, Saint Paul and all the Saints, to help me to remain faithful to
the traditions of our Order, in practising and defending the Catholic,
Apostolic and Roman Religion against impiety and in exercising charity
to my neighbour and above all to the poor and the sick in the Holy Land
and in supporting by prayer and sacrifice the maintenance of the Holy
places and the work of His Beatitude the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Give me the strength to be able to execute these desired with a truly
Christian spirit, for the Glory of God, the peace of the world and the
good for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.