Jesus' Desire to Preserve the Mystery of God
- POPE FRANCIS
Mother of silence, who watches over the mystery of God, save us from the idolatry of the present time, to which those who forget are condemned.
Purify the eyes of pastors with the eye-wash of memory: Take us back to the freshness of the origins, for a prayerful, penitent Church.
Mother of the beauty that blossoms from faithfulness to daily work, lift us from the torpor of laziness, pettiness, and defeatism. Clothe pastors in the compassion that unifies, that makes whole; let us discover the joy of a humble, brotherly, serving Church.
Mother of tenderness who envelops us in patience and mercy, help us burn away the sadness, impatience, and rigidity of those who do not know what it means to belong. Intercede with your Son to obtain that our hands, our feet, our hearts be agile: let us build the Church with the Truth of love.
Mother, we shall be the People of God, pilgrims bound for the Kingdom.
Amen.
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Acknowledgement
Pope Francis. "Jesus' Desire to Preserve the Mystery of God." A Prayer to Mary (May 23, 2013).
This prayer was given after the Profession of Faith with the bishops of the Italian Episcopal Conference in May 2013. This prayer appeared in the June issue of Magnificat.
Reprinted with permission of Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
The Author
Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and a cardinal in 2011. He was elected Pope on March 13, 2013. He is the first pope to be a Jesuit, to come from the Americas, and to come from the Southern Hemisphere. He is the author of Laudato Si, Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday, The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium, The Church of Mercy, Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church, and Through the Year with Pope Francis: Daily Reflections.
