“O
Immaculate Virgin Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!
You, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all
those who ask for your protection; hear the prayer that we address
to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole
Redeemer. Mother of mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice,
to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our
being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work,
our joys, our infirmities and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice and
prosperity to our peoples, for we entrust to your care, Our Lady and
our Mother, all that we have and all that we are. We wish to be entirely
yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness
to Jesus Christ in His Church: hold us always with your loving hand.
"Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you
for all the Bishops, that they may lead the faithful along the 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, Mother of Fair Love, 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 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, with God the Father
and the Holy Spirit, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen."