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Prayer to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots

The devotion comes from a Baroque painting, Mary Untier of Knots, made around 1700 by Johann Georg Schmidtner for the church of St.

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Holy Mary, full of God's presence during the days of your life, you accepted with full humility the Father's will, and the devil was never able to entangle you with his confusion. Once with your Son you interceded for our difficulties, and full of kindness and patience you gave us an example of how to untie the knots in our life. By remaining forever Our Mother, you put in order and make clearer the ties that link us to the Lord. Holy Mother, Mother of God and our Mother, to you who untie with a motherly heart the knots of our life, we pray to you to receive in your hands (name your petition) and to free it from the snarls and confusion with which our enemy attacks. Through your grace, your intercession, and your example, deliver us from all evil, Our Lady, and untie the knots that prevent us from being united with God, so that we, free from sin and error, may find him in all things, may have our hearts placed in him, and may serve him always in our brothers and sisters. Amen.

Devotion of Mary, Undoer of Knots (Augsburg, c. 1700)

About the prayer

Peter am Perlach in Augsburg, Germany. Jorge Mario Bergoglio encountered it while studying in Germany in 1986 and brought the devotion to Argentina, where it spread widely; after his election as Pope Francis it became known throughout the Catholic world. The prayer asks Mary to patiently untangle what a life has knotted.

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