"Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To you do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this exile
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary."
I have never liked this prayer. Its writer was born with a poor physical health condition, and I question if that's what made him call him "self" a child of Eve, that is, the consequence of someone else's act and not the same cause he could see in his "reason". Because that would mean it's not a humble prayer at all. Whenever I heard someone pray this, I only felt Hopelessness. Moreover, it was clearly prayed by people who don't have 10% of his condition, to justify the cold type of worldly life they lead on earth. People who's got no fear of God pray this to play the manic depressed, that is, when they get their kicks and are "up" they're purely mundane, and when they're down they remember to pretend to be "pious".
Why don't you yourself show Good to the questioning ones? Why don't you help Jesus wipe away some tears now? Why don't you give the thirsty some Water to drink now? Because you're not searching for the Answer, you're looking for the same "things" the world is after. And your after "life" does not take place after you repent and accept Her condition to find Life, it's after your body dies. So you need "religion" to give you "hope" that you're going to have a chance of purging your soul after spending all the time you had ignoring the Word. However, if you analyze your "self", you'll see that in addition to the "fear" there's no true desire in you, only the expectation that your selfish self-centered existence will go on.
