John Paul II's Guadalupe Prayer
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 people;
for we entrust to your care
all that we have and all that we
are,
Our Lady and Mother.
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 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 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.