Response: Have Mercy on us. Jesus, knit so wonderfully in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, uniquely human from the moment of conception in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, present at creation, created in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, through whom the world was made, formed in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, Word made flesh, taking on a human body in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, revealed by the Father, concealed in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, subject to human development in the Womb of Mary,  Have Mercy on us. Jesus, whose Precious Blood first flowed through tiny arteries and veins in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, hidden nine months in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, only begotten of the Father, assuming flesh in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, begotten by God, nourished by the substance and blood of his most Holy Mother in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, leaping from eternity into time, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, revealing with his Father and the Holy Spirit all wisdom and knowledge to his most Holy Mother in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, aware of his role as Redeemer in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, sanctifier of His Precursor from the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, eternal Word, Divine Child, embrace by the Father, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, raising His Mother to the heights of sanctification in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, everlasting delight of heaven, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, manifesting His Incarnation to His most holy mother in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, adored and contemplated by His Mother, in the sanctuary of Her Womb, Have Mercy on us. Jesus before whom the angels prostrated themselves, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, in whom the very angels beheld the humanity of the Infant God and the union of the two natures of the Word in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, our protector and savior, asleep in the inviolable Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, whose Holy Limbs first budded in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, whose Sacred Heart first began beating in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, whose Godhead the world cannot contain, weighing only a few grams in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, Divine Immensity, once measuring only tenths of an inch in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, whose Divine Grasp outreaches the universe, cradle in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, Sacrificial lamb, Docile Infant in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us.

Jesus, who was to suffer the agony and passion of death, accepting the human capacity for pain and grief, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, foretelling His Eucharistic Presence, in the Womb of Mary, Have Mercy on us. Jesus, Lamb of God in the Womb of Mary, Spare us, O Lord. Jesus, Holy Innocent in the Womb of Mary, Graciously hear us, O Lord. Jesus, Son of God and Messiah, in the Womb of Mary, Have mercy on us, O Lord.

Let us pray: Jesus, notwithstanding Your Divine Nature as Son of God, equal and one with the Father, You deemed to become incarnated as the Son of Man, assuming the condition of a pre-born child in the Womb of Your Holy Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. You therefore, sanctified and elevated every maternal womb for all time and every human whose life is begun at conception.

Jesus, manifest yourself in the hearts of your people as the Eternal Son of God who began Your life in the Womb of a woman called Mary. You could have chosen to commence your messianic mission in another manner; however, You showed your love for us by becoming a pre-born infant in the Womb of Your Holy Mother. You took on the total human existence from conception to death, since You consented to be carried in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary and then,' after birth, save us by Your suffering and death on the Cross. From conception to death we live and have our being in You. Jesus, we adore and thank You for choosing to become incarnated in the Womb of Your Mother Mary. We beseech You to bless all mothers and intercede with the Holy Spirit and Your Father that every infant in the Womb receive Your precious gift of life.

Jesus, conceived in the Womb of Mary, grant that Mary's loving mantle overshadow these precious pre­-born infants in the wombs of their mother and assist in their birth. We ask these, Jesus, in Your name, who with the Father and Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.

The Word was made flesh

and dwelt among us!

(This prayer is from the Helpers of God's Precious Infants Prayer Book. - Permission was granted to include it in the Unborn Jesus Website.)