Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de las yerbas y plantas y San Pedro, Ora pro Nobis. On this Fullmoon night I come to your garden for the remedies you have brought to us in plants and herbs.

 Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Help us to find good medicine and blessings!always.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. We come to you O most blessed virgin Mary, mother of God most holy. Never was it known that anyone who came to you imploring your remedios was left unaided. Guide us Holy Mary to these remedios, now and forever. Amen.

R:  Sicut erat in principo, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

ASPERGES me, * Domine, hyssopo et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

THOU shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed; Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me worthy to gather your plants.

Monarda spp, Oregano del campo, wild hyssop.

Nuestra Señora de los remedios de las yerbas y plantas, Mother of  herbs and plants, Oh!, Queen of heaven and earth, on this Full Moon Blessed Virgin, with San Pedro, you have showed us tonight the keys of heaven. We worship you. You are the daughter well-beloved of Our Father, the mother chosen by the word, the wife immaculate of the Holy Ghost. Come Holy Ghost by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate heart of Mary, your most beloved chaste spouse. 

     We depend on you, oh!, Dear Mother, as children depend on their mother tender and careful. As you fed and nourished your son Jesus with the sweet salty milk. Let your milk come down like soft gentle rain to norish and heal us. Show us your herbs and plants so we can make good medicine and bring blessings!always. 

    Jesus you hung on the tree of the cross like a flower, you died, went to seed and were buried in the ground then rose at Easter in the spring coming like the Pasque flower.

Anemome tuberosa, the pasqueflower.
We come to this place to gather the medicine, which is your body and blood under this full moon, to do as you commanded, this is my body and blood, eat it and be made well by my bounty and blessing. Do this in memory of me. "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick." "And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." "The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.", ..."none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer."

      Forest of Redroot, Ceanothus fendleri. Comfort the afflicted and those alone and solitary, help the poor and those who lost their hope; help the sick and to those who suffer. They can be cured of body and soul, and strengthened in spirit with these Remedios, these plants you give us on this Full Moon.

      Our Lady of All Remedies we come in remembrance of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and in honour of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, Blessed John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, we know all manner of healing come from you in these plants, who are your children even as I am your son and you my Mother, show me which plant can heal my brother and sisters, do not let them suffer but show me good medicine to bring blessings!always.

Let me bring good into this world in the name of Jesus, Mary and all the angels and saints.

-Paul Manski