{"id":31740,"date":"2014-12-09T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31740"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:31:19","slug":"popes-prayer-to-mary-the-immaculate-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/popes-prayer-to-mary-the-immaculate-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope’s prayer to Mary, the Immaculate Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"immaculate<\/a>We know that Pope Francis has a devotion to the Mother of God. No doubt strongly influenced by his Argentinian\/Italian and Jesuit background. In some ways he’s no different than most faithful Catholics who have a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin.<\/p>\n

Francis has become a frequent papal visitor to the\u00a0Basilica of Saint Mary Major; yesterday, he went to this basilica and prayed in front of the Marian image of Salus Populi Romani.\u00a0<\/em>Thereafter, the Holy Father\u00a0went to Piazza di Spagna for the traditional act of veneration of the Immaculate Conception. Having made\u00a0the Act of Veneration of the Immaculate Conception, Francis prayed a special prayer he composed. Here is what he prayed, and this ought to be our prayer, too:<\/p>\n

Oh Mary, our Mother,
\ntoday the people of God in celebration
\nvenerate the Immaculate,
\nalways preserved from the contagion of sin.<\/p>\n

Accept the gift I offer\u00a0on behalf of the Church in Rome
\nand throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Knowing that You, our Mother, are completely free from sin
\ngives us great comfort.
\nKnowing that evil has no power over You,
\nfills us with hope and fortitude
\nin the daily struggle that we must fulfill against the threats of the evil one.<\/p>\n

But we are not alone in this struggle, we are not orphans, because Jesus,
\nbefore dying on the cross,has given You to us as a Mother.<\/p>\n

We, therefore, despite being sinners, are your children, sons of the Immaculate,
\ncalled to the holiness that shines through You
\nby the grace of God from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Animated by this hope,
\nwe pray today for Your maternal protection for us, for our families,
\nfor this city, for the whole world.<\/p>\n

May the power of God’s love,
\nthat preserved You from original sin,
\nthrough Your intercession, free humanity from every spiritual and material slavery,
\nand make us win, in hearts and in events, God’s plan of salvation.<\/p>\n

May grace prevail in us, Your children, over
\npride and we can become merciful
\nas our heavenly Father is merciful.<\/p>\n

In this time that leads us
\ntowards the feast of the Nativity of Jesus,
\nteach us to go against the tide:
\nto divest ourselves, to lower ourselves, to give ourselves, to listen, to be silent,
\nto decentralize ourselves,
\nto make room for the beauty of God, the source of true joy.<\/p>\n

Oh Immaculate, Our Mother, pray for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know that Pope Francis has a devotion to the Mother of God. No doubt strongly influenced by his Argentinian\/Italian and Jesuit background. In some ways he’s no different than most faithful Catholics who have a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Francis has become a frequent papal visitor to the\u00a0Basilica of Saint Mary Major; … Continue reading Pope’s prayer to Mary, the Immaculate Conception<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1852,32107,1791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31742,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740\/revisions\/31742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}