Expectant Joy Prayer – Light of the world, guide me to know a deep need of the human family, inspire me to service and healing, and open my heart to your own.

PRAYER BY POPE JOHN PAUL II,.- O MARY, DAWN OF THE NEW WORLD, MOTHER OF THE LIVING,WE ENTRUST YOU THE ACTION FOR LIFE; LOOK, O MOTHER, AT THE TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO ARE WHO ARE IMPEDED FROM BEING BORN, OF THE POOR FOR WHOM SURVIVAL BECOMES DIFFICULT, OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE VICTIMS OF IN

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First Day: Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength. Hear my humble prayer offered with heartfelt confidence to beg this favor . .

Prayer To Obtain Favor – Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at mid-night, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ and of

Fourth Day Mary, the mother who hears the word of God.

Saint Frances Cabrini, In every corner of hemisphere you sought out those whom everyone had forgotten. Mother of immigrants, friend of orphans, protector of the poor, intercede for us who seek to follow your example. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Mother of the aged; Be with those who ar

WITNESSES FOR GOD-The four women  Sister Maura Clarke, M.M, Sister Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U., Sister Ita Ford, M.M., and lay missioner Jean Donovan—were killed in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980. The murders were part of a brutal pattern of attacks by death squads and members of the Salvadoran Armed Fo

Third Day Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Day Seven-Saint Frances Cabrin was born in a little village in Lombardy in 1850, so fragile at birth that she was brought immediately to Church to be baptized. While from her youth she dreamed only of being a missionary, she was three times rejected when applying to a convent. Yet in her years of re