O Mary Bright Dawn of the New World

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.

Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995

Our Lady of the Millennium, Mother of the Redeemer

Our Lady of the Millennium, Mother of the Redeemer

with great joy we call you blessed.

In order to carry out His plan of salvation,

God the Father chose you before the creation of the world.

You believed in His love and obeyed His word.

The Son of God desired you for His Mother

when he became man to save the human race.

You received Him with ready obedience and undivided heart.

The Holy Spirit loved you as His mystical spouse

and He filled you with singular gifts.

You allowed yourself to be led

by His hidden and powerful action.

On the eve of the third Christian Millennium.

we entrust to you the Church

which acknowledges you and invokes you as Mother.

To you, Mother of the human family and of the nations,

we confidently entrust the whole of humanity,

with its hopes and fears.

Do not let it lack the light of true wisdom.

Guide its steps in the ways of peace.

Enable all to meet Christ,

the Way and the Truth and the Life.

Sustain us, O Virgin Mary, on our journey of faith

and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Mother of God and our Mother, Mary!

written by Pope John Paul 11

Ave Maria

Glory be to God