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 God the Word and her mercies incalculably great and innumerable have been declared from all ages by all Christian Churches; she is indeed an abyss of mercies and bounties as is said of Her in the canon of Odigitry. St. John of Krons