O Mother, like the Apostle John,
we wish to take you into our home (Jn 19:27),

that we may learn from you to become like your Son.
"Woman, behold your son!"
Here we stand before you
to entrust to your maternal care
ourselves, the Church, the entire world.

Plead for us with your beloved Son
that he may give us in abundance the Holy Spirit,
the Spirit of truth, which is the fountain of life.

We entrust to you all people, beginning with the weakest:
the babies yet unborn,
and those born into poverty and suffering,
the young in search of meaning,
the unemployed,
and those suffering hunger and disease.

We entrust to you all troubled families,
the elderly with no one to help them,
and all who are alone and without hope.

O Mother, you know the sufferings
and hopes of the Church and the world:
come to the aid of your children in the daily trials
which life brings to each one,
and grant that, thanks to the efforts of all,
the darkness will not prevail over the light.

To you, Dawn of Salvation, we commit
our journey so that with you as guide
all people may know Christ,
the light of the world and its only Saviour,
who reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit
for ever and ever. Amen.

(Excerpt from John Paul II’s Prayer October 8, 2000. (N 4-5.) at the conclusión of the Jubilee of the Bishops, Pope John Paull II and the bishops entrusted themselves and the Church in the new Millenium to Mary.

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