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| Cardinal Dolan stops at an icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa while touring through our permanent exhibit last year. |
Faithful Daughter of the Eternal
Father, Temple of the Love that embraces heaven and earth, I entrust to you the
service of the Church in the world, a world which so needs love. Mother of God,
Mother of the only-begotten Son who gave us as the principle of life the new
commandment of love, help us to become builders of a united world, in which
peace triumphs over war, and the civilization of death is replaced by love for
life.
…Mother of Unity and Peace,
strengthen the bond of communion within the Church of your Son, enliven
ecumenical efforts so that all Christians, by the power of the Holy Spirit, may
become one family of sisters and brothers of Jesus Christ, the one Savior of
the world yesterday, today and for ever (cf. Heb. 13:8).
Virgin Mother of God, help us to
enter the Third Millennium of Christianity through the holy door of faith, hope
and love.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin
Mary, accept our trust, strengthen it in our hearts and present it before the
face of the one God in the Holy Trinity. Amen.
-Saint John Paul II, Visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Jasna Gora, 1997
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