Prayer for America
We thank you, Lord Jesus, because the Gospel of the Father's love, with which you came to save the world, has been proclaimed far and wide in America as a gift of the Holy Spirit that fills us with gladness.
We thank you for the gift of Your Life, which you have given us by loving us to the end; your Life makes us all children of God, brothers and sisters to each other.
Increase, O Lord, our faith and love for you present in all the tabernacles of the continent.
Grant us to be faithful witnesses to your Resurrection for the younger generation of Americans, so that, in knowing you, they may follow you and find in you their only peace and joy.
Only then will they know that they are brothers and sisters of all God's children throughout the world.
You, who in becoming man, chose to belong to a human family, teach us the virtues which filled with light the family home of Nazareth.
May we always be united, as you and the Father are one, and may we be living witnesses to love, justice and solidarity; make us examples of respect, forgiveness and mutual help, so that the world may believe.
Protect your Church and the Successor of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI to whom you, Good Shepherd, have entrusted the task of feeding your flock.
Grant that the Church in America may flourish and grow richer in the fruits of holiness.
Teach us to love your Mother Mary, as you loved her.
Give us strength to proclaim your Divine Word with courage in the work of the new evangelization, so that the world may know new hope.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of America, pray for us!
We thank you for the gift of Your Life, which you have given us by loving us to the end; your Life makes us all children of God, brothers and sisters to each other.
Increase, O Lord, our faith and love for you present in all the tabernacles of the continent.
Grant us to be faithful witnesses to your Resurrection for the younger generation of Americans, so that, in knowing you, they may follow you and find in you their only peace and joy.
Only then will they know that they are brothers and sisters of all God's children throughout the world.
You, who in becoming man, chose to belong to a human family, teach us the virtues which filled with light the family home of Nazareth.
May we always be united, as you and the Father are one, and may we be living witnesses to love, justice and solidarity; make us examples of respect, forgiveness and mutual help, so that the world may believe.
Protect your Church and the Successor of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI to whom you, Good Shepherd, have entrusted the task of feeding your flock.
Grant that the Church in America may flourish and grow richer in the fruits of holiness.
Teach us to love your Mother Mary, as you loved her.
Give us strength to proclaim your Divine Word with courage in the work of the new evangelization, so that the world may know new hope.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of America, pray for us!