Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the Bishops, that
they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble
service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the
Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole people of God, and grant
abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers
of God’s mysteries.
Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the
same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed
Virgin Mary, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the
upbringing of our children.
Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we
fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults
and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul.
We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were,
the signs that your Son left us on earth.
Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free
from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come
to us from your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy
Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Amen.
St. Pope John Paul II