Ave Maria Meditations
Holy Virgin, I beg you: enable me to receive Jesus from the Spirit, according to the same process by which you bore Jesus. May my soul possess Jesus thanks to the Spirit through whom you conceived Jesus. May the grace to know Jesus be granted to me through the Spirit who enabled you to know how to possess Jesus and bring him forth.
May my littleness show forth the greatness of Jesus in virtue of the Spirit in whom you recognized yourself as the handmaid of the Lord, desiring that it be done to you according to the word of the Angel. May I love Jesus in the Spirit in whom you adored him as your Lord and looked after him as your Son.
(Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo)
