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Day 1 - Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for a New Culture of Life HD

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When I was a very young man I spent nearly two years in a Benedictine Monastery dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. 

At every time of formal prayer, and during personal prayer, I was deeply inspired by a wall-sized image of Our Lady of Guadalupe which had been painted by a pilgrim when the Monastery was founded.

It drew me ever closer to Jesus and had a profound effect on me.

More than Over forty years have passed and The Image of the pregnant Virgin Mother of the Lord, Our Lady of Guadalupe, communicates deeply, to my heart.

I am not alone. This beautiful image is still drawing all pilgrims, those who approach for reflection and assistance, to the Son whom she carried in her womb as a living tabernacle.  

Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico as the pregnant Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ to St. Juan Diego, on December 9, 10 and 12, 1531.

She left a Miraculous Image, an Icon, of her appearance on his cactus fiber cloak (Tilma) which still exists today for all to observe and venerate in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.

Saint John Paul II said of this beautiful Image:

“Our Lady is brilliantly seen in the mestizo countenance of this image of Mary of Guadalupe who appeared in the beginning of the evangelization of the Americas... 

I ask her to ‘visit’ as a ‘pilgrim of faith’ – each and every diocese, parish and family in America, repeating to her children what she did at Cana, ‘Do whatever He tells you.’ (Jn: 2:5). May she cross this continent bringing it ‘life, sweetness, and hope!’ ”

We seek her intercession for an end to the culture of death, the building of a new Culture of Life and the conversion of the Americas to Jesus Christ and His Church.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization, pray for us  

[PRAYER]

Beloved Father, through the life, death, and resurrection of your only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, we have become your adopted sons and daughters. 

Through Baptism we are now members of His Body, the Church, which is Your family. 

Before your Son and our Savior gave up the last drop of His Sacred blood - and breathed his last breath – to set us free from sin and death – he turned to His Beloved Mother at the foot of the Cross.

And said, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ 

Then he said to the disciple whom he loved with a special affection, John, and said, ‘Behold your mother’” (John 19: 26-27). 

The Mother of Jesus is the Mother of His Church –  and our Mother.

 And Now Dear Father, in the name of Jesus, and under the maternal care of Mary, His Mother, under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we ask for the end of the culture of death.

We ask for the spread of a new culture of life in the Americas. 

We pray for the new evangelization of the Church and the conversion of the Americas to Jesus Christ and His Church.

And here, I present my own personal intention:  

HERE ADD YOUR SPECIFIC INTENTION

Finally, as the Family of God, we make our own the Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe prayed by Saint John Paul II at the Basilica dedicated to her in Mexico City: 

“O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer.

Mother of Mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities and our sorrows. 

Grant peace, justice and prosperity to our peoples; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church; hold us always with your loving hand.

Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the Bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. 

Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that He may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole people of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God’s mysteries.

Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. 

Blessed Virgin Mary, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children.

Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to Him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul.

Read more of this Novena: http://www.catholic.org/prayers/novenas/

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