Prayer and fasting.
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life.
Look
down, O Mother upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are
victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by
indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant
that all who believe in Your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with
honesty and love to the people of our time. Obtain for them the grace
to accept that Gospel as a gift ever new, the joy of celebrating it with
gratitude throughout their lives and the courage to bear witness to it
resolutely, in order to build, together with all people of good will,
the civilization of truth and love, to the praise and glory of God, the
Creator and lover of life.
This prayer is the conclusion of Pope John Paul II's encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)
AMEN!
Posted by: Eileen Peterson | January 28, 2013 at 09:24 PM