The saints intercede on behalf of, pray for, and protect us. Through their own spiritual struggle and cooperation with God’s grace they have become our examples, guides, and allies in our own spiritual journey. Their victory through the grace of Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit is a shield and protection in our own struggles. The greatest of these saints is the Theotokos, the Mother of God. Her protection and prayers are ever present.
“Holy Mary, Mother of God, do not abandon me.”
This cry arises from a place of fear, powerlessness, and approaching death. It represents the struggle to hold on to life. The following video of the second movement of Gorecki’s Symphony Number 3 captures beautifully the struggle and the prayer. This second movement uses a prayer that was found scratched on a wall in cell number three in the basement of the Gestapo’s headquarters in Zakopane. Beneath that prayer was the signature, “Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna,” and the words “18 years old, imprisoned since 26 September 1944.” Her prayer seems to be directed to both her biological mother and her protector, the Mother of God.
No, Mother, do not weep,
Most chaste Queen of Heaven
Support me always.
“Zdrowas Mario.”*
*(Ave Maria—the opening of the Polish prayer to the Holy Mother.)
Interrupting the Silence 
What a haunting lamentation which is filled with hope. Thank you for sharing.
Paul
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Paul, thank you for your comment. “Haunting” is a good description. Perhaps what haunts me most about it is its familiarity deep within me.
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I always remember that she did not abandon her Son, even in the hour of his dying. She does not abandon us, ever…
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Thanks be to God! Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
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Mary is our loving mother. She always with us. she is careing us as her own childrens.
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Br. Roymani, thank you for your words of faith and encouragement. Peace, Mike
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The words of an 18 year old woman who died 65 years ago reached me as no God ever could. God never answered my payers and God never helped me as a child in desperate need. I’m not alone. God didn’t answer the payers of the holocaust victims, and God didn’t try to save his chosen ones. The words of Helena Wanda Blazusiakowna, beyond the grave so-to-speak, is the only miracle I’ve ever experienced.
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She is known to have survived and married in 1950.
https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Wanda_B%C5%82a%C5%BCusiak%C3%B3wna
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