Prayers by Pope John Paul II (1920-)
Source: A Marian Prayer Book : A
Treasury of Prayers, Hymns, and Meditations / edited by Pamela Moran
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Be
with us more and more. Meet us more and more often because we need it
so much. Speak to us by your motherhood, by your simplicity and
by holiness. Speak to us by your Immaculate Conception! Speak to us
continually! And obtain for us the grace–even if we are distant–of
not becoming insensitive to your presence in our midst. Amen
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Accept
us! Look into our hearts! Accept our concerns and our
hopes! Help us, you who are full of grace, to live in grace, to
persevere in grace, and, if necessary, to return to the grace of the
living God, which is man’s greatest and supernatural good.
Prepare us for your Son’s coming!
Accept us! With our everyday
problems, our weaknesses and deficiencies, our crises, and personal,
family and social shortcomings. Do not let us lose goodwill! Do not
let us lose sincerity of conscience and uprightness of behavior! With
your prayer, obtain justice for us. Safeguard peace in the whole world!
In a short time we shall all leave this
place. We wish, however, to return to our homes with this joyful certainty
that you are with us, you, Mary Immaculate, you, chosen for centuries
to be Mother of the Redeemer. Be with us. Be with Rome. Be with the
Church and with the world. Amen.
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Mother
of the Church, grant that the Church may enjoy freedom and peace in
fulfilling her saving mission and that to this end she may become mature
with a new
maturity of faith and inner unity. Help us to overcome opposition
and difficulties. Help us to rediscover all the simplicity and dignity
of the Christian vocation. Grant that there may be no lack of “laborers
in the Lord’s vineyard.”
Sanctify families. Watch over the souls of
the young and the hearts of the children. Help us to overcome the great
moral threats against the fundamental spheres of life and love. Obtain
for us the grace to be continually renewed through all the beauty of
witness given to the cross and resurrection of your Son. Amen
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Mother,
I commend and entrust to you all that goes to make up earthly progress,
asking that it should not be one-sided, but that it should create conditions
for the full spiritual advancement of individuals, families, communities,
and nations.
I commend to you the poor, the suffering,
the sick and the handicapped, the aging, and the dying. I ask you to
reconcile those in sin, to heal those in pain, and to uplift those who
have lost their hope and joy. Show to those who struggle in doubt the
light of Christ your Son. Amen.
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