CORONA

OF OUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION

San Agustin Monastery

Intramuros, Manila
This little rosary of the Blessed Virgin is intended to proclaim our faith as we find it
expressed in the Apostles Creed. We do this while calling to mind the scene in the Cenacle
when the Apostles devoted themselves to constant prater. There were some women in their
company, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers (Acts 1: 14)

The following is a fitting way to recite the corona:

V. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.

After the announcement of each article of the Apostles Creed, a brief reading may be
taken from among the following selections of the works of St. Augustine, or readings may
be taken from other works that deal with the articles of the Creed. There follows a brief
silence, then the Our Father and Hail Mary is recited. One or two of the following readings
may be chosen.

1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth.

You Lord, created heaven and earth. They are beautiful because you are beauty; they are
good because you are goodness; they exist because you exist. They are not as beautiful or
as good, nor do they have being, as do you, their creator; compared with you they are
neither beautiful nor good nor do they exist.

Or:
Form the Confessions of St. Augustine

And what is this, I asked the earth, it responded: I am not God; when I asked the
waters and the deep, they responded: We are not your God. Look above us. When I
asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars: Nor are we the God you seek, they
said. To all of them I said: Speak to me of my God. If you are not he, tell me
something about him. Loudly they exclaimed: It is he who made us. The heavens,
the earth, and everything that is in them, all these things tell me to love you.

Or:

Every created thing precedes other created things, some by reason of time, others by
reason of causality. God, however, precedes everything that he created, not only because he
is eminently superior, since he is the source of causality, but also because he is eternal.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.
2. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.

Every breath yearns for Christ. He alone is the desired one, the most beautiful of all. He
loved us in our unloveliness, in order to make us beautiful like himself.

Or:
From the works of our Father, St. Augustine on Christian Doctrine

I am the way, the truth and the life. It is by me that you come; it is I that you come to,
and in me you remain. How do you wish to go? I am the way. Where do you wish to
go? I am the truth. Where do you wish to remain? I am the life. Christ as God is the
fatherland where we are going; Christ as man is the way we must travel.

Or:

We, it is true, shall become sons of God by his gift, but Christ has always been Gods Son
by his nature. We, once converted shall be united to God, though always different from
him, but Christ who never separated himself from God, remains equal to him. We shall
participate in eternal life, but Christ is eternal life.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

3. Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

From the work of our Father Saint Augustine on Johns Gospel

Oh, incredible kindness and mercy! He was the only Son, but he did not want to
remain alone. In order that men might be born of God, God first was born of men. He
had to seek on earth only a mother, since his Father he already had in heaven.
Begotten of God is he through whom we were created; born of a woman is he through
whom we are to be recreated. The Word first wished to be born of man, so that you
might be assured of being born of God.

Or:

His human birth was both humble and extraordinary. Why humble? Because as man he
was born of a human creature. Why extraordinary? Because he was born of a virgin.
Virgin she conceived, virgin she gave birth, and virgin she remained.

Or:

What has appeared to you as weakness is in fact hidden divinity. He is rich because of what
he is, poor because he was like you. And yet, his poverty is our wealth, in the same sense
that his weakness is our strength, his ignorance our wisdom and his mortal
condition our immortality.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

4. suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.

From the work of our Father Saint Augustine on Johns Gospel

Exalted is the fatherland, humble is the way. The fatherland is the life of Christ, his
death is the way. The fatherland is above where Christ dwells with the Father, his
suffering is the way. If anyone rejects the way, how can he seek the fatherland?

Or:

For you he allowed himself to be crucified, to teach you humility. He was alive and you
were dead; he died that you might live. God vanquished death so that death might not
overcome man.

Or:

What is it that we love in Christ? The crucified body or the pierced side, or is it not rather
his love itself? When we hear it said that he suffered for us, what do we love? It is his very
love that we love. The fact is that he loved us so that we might love him in return.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

5. He descended into hell and on the third day he rose again.

An example of painful toil the cross; the reward of painful toil resurrection. In the
cross he showed us how we are to bear suffering; in his resurrection he showed us what
we are to hope for.

Or:

What Christ has done counts for more than what he promised you. What did he do? He
died for you. What did he promise? That you will live with him. It is more difficult to
believe that the eternal One died than that man should live forever. If God has in fact died
for man, why should not man live forever with God? He took on what he needed to die for
you; you will take on what you need to live with him.

Or:
From the Sermons of our Father Saint Augustine

Our faith is strengthened by the resurrection of Christ. The passion of Christ represents
the misery of our present life, while the resurrection of Christ gives us a brilliant glimpse of
the happiness of future life. Let us apply ourselves energetically in the present life, and
hope in the future. Now is the time for the painful struggle; then will come the recompense.
Anyone who is lazy about carrying out his work will be brazenly impudent, if he expects
the recompense.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

6. He ascended into Heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father.

From the Sermons of our Father Saint Augustine

Wonderful is the fact that, even though he ascended above the heavens, he remain
close to those who are still living on earth. Who is this one who is so far away and yet
so near, if not he who out of merciful goodness became our brother?

Or:

I removed myself from your eyes. Let this mortal body which I assumed because of your
mortality be taken out of sight. Begin now to see no more this vesture that I have put on out
of humility, and let it be taken up into heaven so that we may know what
you are to hope for.

Or:

He ascended into heaven. And where is he now? He sits at the right hand of the Father.
Do you know what the right hand means? The right hand of God means eternal
happiness. It means inestimable, inexpressible, incomprehensible beatitude.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

7. And he will come to judge the living and the dead.

Let us welcome him as out Savior, in order not to have to fear him as our judge. Whoever
now believes in him, observes his commandments and loves him, will not fear him when
he comes to judge the living and the dead. Not only will you not fear,
you will desire his coming. Is there anything more joyful than the arrival of someone you
are awaiting, the arrival of someone you love?

Or:

The one who is now our defending lawyer will then be our judge. Can it be that we have
him as our defender and yet fear him as our judge? No! By the fact that, fully confident, we
sent him ahead to defend us, let us preserve our hope in him when he comes to judge.

Or:
From the work of our Father Saint Augustine on Johns Gospel

Believe firmly what you believe - that he will return. What does it matter when?
Prepare yourself for his coming. Put aside curiosity and develop trusting love. What
does it matter when? Love as though he was coming today and you will not fear his
coming.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

8. I believe in the Holy Spirit.

What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, the Church.
The Holy Spirit is active in the whole Church in the same way that the soul

animates all the members of the human body.

Or:
From the Sermons of our Father Saint Augustine

This excellent guest finds you empty and fills you, he finds you hungry and thirsty and
satisfies you abundantly. God the Holy Spirit, who comes from God, when he enters into a
man, draws him into the love of God and neighbor. Indeed, he is love itself.

Or:

The love which is of God and which is God himself is properly the Holy Spirit, through
whom the love of God is poured into our hearts, thus bringing it about that the whole
Trinity dwells in us. If you wish to live by the Holy Spirit, possess charity, love
truth, desire unity so that you may come to eternal life.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.
9. the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints.

Let us love the Lord our God, let us love his Church. We love him as our Father, the
Church as our mother. Him we love as Lord, the Church we love as his handmaid. This
marriage is cemented by the deepest love. It is not possible to offend the one and enjoy
the good feelings of the other. What good does it do to remain in the grace of the Father,
when he will vindicate the mother if you offend her.

Or:

O Catholic Church, true mother of Christians, you are right not only in preaching that God
should be adored with an entirely chaste and pure heart, for indeed, to live in him is the
blessed life. You also unite brother to brother in a bonds of religion that is stronger and
closer than ties of blood. You unite citizen to citizen, people to people, not by a mere
grouping together but the bond of fraternity.

Or:
From the Sermons of our Father Saint Augustine

Mary gave birth to your head and the Church gave birth to you. The Church too is a
mother and a virgin mother because she is made of love, virgin because of the
integrity of her faith.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

10. The forgiveness of sins;

The wound is serious but the physician is all powerful. Does it seem to you so small a
mercy that, while you were living in evil and sinning, he did not take away your life, but
brought you to belief and forgave your sins? Does that seem to be a small mercy? What I
suffer from is serious, but I trust the almighty. I would despair of my mortal wound, if I had
not found so great a physician.

Or:
From the work of our Father Saint Augustine on the Discourses on the Psalms

Driven out of paradise by you, and exiled in a distant land, by myself I cannot return,
unless you come to meet me in my wandering. My return is based on hope in your
mercy during all of my earthly life. My only hope, the only source of consolation, the
only solid promise is your mercy.

Or:

Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. For him
nothing that is good for man is impossible, and no evil is beyond repair. Here you see the
true greatness of the Lord, the justification of the sinner.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

11. The Resurrection of the Body.

Will these ashes therefore on day, take on the form of beauty, be restored to life, restored to
light? The bodies of all of us, of me who now speaks to you and of you who now listen, all
of us in a few years will be ashes, and yet a few years ago we were not even ashes. If he
was able to create what did not exist, will he not be able to remake what once existed?

Or:
From the work of our Father Saint Augustine on Johns Gospel

As Christ took on what he needed to die for you, so will you take on what you need to
live with him. Where did he take on his mortality? In the virginity of his
mother. Where will you take on life? In his equality with the Father.

Or:

The resurrection of the body will be an end and without end. The body will die no more,
will have no more sufferings, no more hunger and thirst, no more afflictions; it will not
become aged or ill. We shall be possessed by the Lord, we shall be his inheritance and he
will be ours.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

12. and life everlasting. Amen.

If you should become tired of loving, you will also fail in praising. But id it is true that
love will be eternal, since his beauty is inexhaustible, then have no fear! Nothing will
impede you from praising forever him whom you will be able to love forever.
Or:

We shall see, we shall love, we shall praise. Our vision will not fail, our love will never
end, and our praise will never fall silent. Love sings now; then, too, it is love that will
sing. But now it is a yearning love that sings, then it will be an enjoying love.

Or:
From the work of our Father Saint Augustine the City of God

There, we shall be at rest, and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall
love and we shall praise. The end of our desires will be he who can be admired
without end, can be loved with our being bored, can be praised without our becoming
tired.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,

our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;
to you do we send up our sighs,

mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us;
and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

V. Pray for us, holy Mother of God.

R. That we may be made worthy of promises of Christ.

Let us pray. Lord Jesus Christ, Father of mercies and God of every consolation,
grant, we pray, that your faithful, who rejoice in the protection of the holy Virgin Mary
,Mother of Consolation, may, by her motherly intercession,
be freed from all evils in this life and be worthy of coming to the eternal joy of heaven,
where you live and reign forever and ever.

R. Amen.
 THE AUGUSTINIAN ROSARY
The Corona of Our Lady of Consolation is an Augustinian
devotion meditating on the central articles of the Christian Faith as found
in the Apostles' Creed.
 The Corona of Our Lady of Consolation

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Let us devoutly recite this corona for the good of the Church, imploring the aid of Our Lady of
Consolation , Our Holy Father Augustine and all the saints.

Let us pray:
Direct, we beseech Thee, O Lord, our actions by Thy holy inspirations and carry them
out by Thy gracious assistance, that every prayer and work of ours begin from Thee and
by Thee be happily ended, through Christ our Lord.

1st Article: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth.
Let us consider how Almighty God created from nothing heaven and earth and all things.

Most Holy Virgin, assist us to despise the vanities of earth, that we may obtain the everlasting
rewards of heaven.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church,
keep us true to our faith.

(*recite Our Father/Hail Mary/Glory Be after each of the following articles and the Finale.)

2nd Article: And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.
Let us consider that Jesus Christ our Lord is the true and only Son of the Eternal Father.

Most Holy Virgin, help us to believe and hope in Him, and to love Him with all our hearts,
because He alone is the true Savior of the world.

3rd Article: Who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin
Mary
Let us consider that Jesus is the true Son of Mary ever Virgin. She conceived Him in her most
chaste womb by the operation of the Holy Spirit, and brought Him forth without injury to her
immaculate purity.

Most glorious Virgin, help us to recover and preserve the divine grace, that, as you are the
natural mother of Jesus, we may be the adopted children of God.

4th Article: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
Let us consider the passion, death and burial of our crucified Redeemer, tenderly consoling
Him in our heart of hearts.

Most afflicted Mother of God, obtain for us, that the wounds of our Blessed Lord may be
always deeply impressed on our hearts.

5th Article: He descended into hell; the third day He rose again.
Let us consider that soul of Jesus descended to the dead to liberate the holy Fathers, with
whom He arose glorious the third day after His death.
O holy Virgin, consoled in seeing your Divine Son arisen, assist us to rise out from sin to a
new life of grace and glory.

6th Article: He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father
Almighty.
Let us consider that Jesus, forty days after His resurrection, blessed His holy mother, the
apostles and disciples, and the faithful who followed Him to Mount Olilvet, in whose presence
He ascended into heaven, where He sits at the right hand of God the Father.

O Blessed Virgin, assist us to humble ourselves and bear our cross here, that we may be
afterwards exalted.

7th Article: From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
Let us consider that Jesus Christ will descend from heaven to judge the entire human race on
the last day.

Holy Mary, advocate of sinners, assist us, that being faithful during life, we may be reign with
the elect on that dreadful day.

8th: Article I believe in the Holy Spirit

Let us consider the profound mystery of the Blessed Trinity, and with a lively act of faith let us
believe, that as the divine Son was generated from eternity by the Father, so the Holy Spirit
proceeds from eternity, from the Father and the Son, and with them is one God.

Most pure Virgin, obtain for us, from your divine spouse, the Holy Spirit, an ardent charity,
that our hearts, cleansed from all earthly affections, may burn with the fire of divine love.

9th Article: The Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saint

Let us consider that God, in His infinite goodness, without any merit of ours, caused us to be
born and brought up in the bosom of the Catholic Church. It is in the Church we participate in
the infinite merits of the Christ and the Saints.

Most holy Virgin, assist us to thank Him for so great a favor, and to be ready, if necessary, to
shed our blood to confess the truth of our holy Faith.

10th Article: The forgiveness of sins

Let us consider that Divine goodness is infinitely greater than our sinfulness, and that God can
remit the faults we miserable sinners commit.

Most pure Virgin, obtain for us true contrition for our sins, both now and at the hour of our
death, that, reconciled with God, we may afterward feel the happy effects of the divine mercy.

11th Article: The resurrection of the body

Let us consider that on the day of the general judgment we shall all rise again, each receiving
his own body.

O immaculate Virgin Mary, may the Holy cincture of Consolation preserve us from carnal
impurities that we may appear spotless and unsullied on that glorious day.

12th Article: Life everlasting

Let us consider the ultimate end of man, namely the everlasting life prepared by God for His
faithful servants.

O most prudent Virgin, assist us to make good use of our time now, that we may obtain
hereafter the eternal joys

Finale: Let us consider the Sacred humanity of our Divine Redeemer, who for love of us
shed His most Precious Blood, and laid down His life amidst the cruel torments and mockery
of His enemies.

Oh holy Mother of God, assist us to meditate with fruit on the Sacred Cincture we wear, as it is
an emblem of your Divine Son, our Blessed Redeemer.

Prostrate at your feet, O most Holy Mary, Mother of Consolation, we recommend to you the
preservation and protection of our Bishop N.. We ask you to protect the Holy Catholic Faith by
your prayers, extirpating heresy, establishing peace among Christian rulers and all the faithful,
and above all the conversion of poor sinners, and the relief of the suffer souls in Purgatory.

Hail holy queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry,
poor banished children o f Eve. To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in
this valley of tears. Turn then most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after
this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O
sweet Virgin Mary

V. Pray for us O Holy Mother of Consolation,

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

V. Pray for us, O Holy Father Augustine,

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother Monica

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Father of mercies and God of all consolation,
grant propitiously to Thy servants that, joyfully venerating Thy most pure
Virgin Mary, Mother of Consolation we may be consoled by her prayers in the
sorrows, of this life, and may we merit the ineffable consolations of Heaven for
eternity. You who live and reign forever and ever

R. Amen.

Our Mother of Consolation

be our protection