“O Mary Immaculate,
we gather around you once again.
The more we go on in life
the more our gratitude to God increases
for giving to us as a mother, we that are sinners, You, who are the Immaculate.
Among all human beings, you are the only one preserved from sin, as the mother of Jesus Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
But this your unique privilege
it was given to you for the sake of us all, your children.
Name your request…
We thank you, Immaculate Mother,
for reminding us that, by the love of Jesus Christ,
we are no longer slaves to sin,
but free, free to love, to love each other, to help each other as brothers, even if different from us.
Thank you for encouraging us with your candor not to be ashamed of good, but of evil; help us to keep the evil one away from us, who with deceit draws us to himself, into the coils of death; give us the sweet memory that we are children of God, the Father of immense goodness, the eternal source of life, beauty and love. Amen.”
