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O Immaculate Virgin,
Mother of the true God
and Mother of the Church!,
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
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,
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 comes 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.
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