Our Lady of the
Millennium
A prayer by
Pope John Paul II
Mother of the
Redeemer, with great joy we call you blessed.
God the Father, in
order to carry out his plan of salvation, chose you before the creation of the
world. You believed in his love and obeyed his word.
The Son of God
desired you for his mother when he became man to save the human race. You
received him with ready obedience and undivided heart.
The Holy Spirit
loved you as his mystical spouse and filled you with singular gifts. You allowed
yourself to be led by his hidden and powerful actions.
As we enter the
third Christian Millennium, we entrust to you the Church which acknowledges you
and invokes you as Mother.
To you, Mother of
the human family and of the nations, we confidently entrust the whole of
humanity, with its hopes and fears. Do not let it lack the light of true wisdom.
Guide its steps in the ways of peace. Enable all to meet Christ, the Way, the
Truth and the Life.
Sustain us, O
Virgin Mary, on our journey of faith and obtain for us the grace of eternal
salvation.
O clement, O
loving, O sweet Mother of God and our Mother Mary