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On October 2, 2009
Our Lady of Guadalupe for Life
Held its First Benefit Dinner.
We Thank All Who
Helped Make it a Success.
Our Lady of Guadalupe for Life Lay Apostolate is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
Our Lady of Gudalalupe for Life is a lay apostolate that gathers daily for the Holy Sacrafice of the Mass, and for a pro-life holy hour before Jesus in the tabernacle. Daily we lift up prayers for Life through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We pray to enlighten all people about Our Blessed Mother's concern for her children, to save the Lives of Babies Born and Unborn. We also remember all of our benefactors, and their needs, in our petitions.
Since October 1, 2002, the feast day of St. Therese of Lisieux, we have been displaying the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe for Life on Billboads along Missouri highways. This would not be possible without your continued support, both spiritually and financially. We know how important the pro-life message is and we thank you for all of your help.
As this most important work is dedicated to our Blessed Mother, we know that many mothers and their babies have experienced the beautiful miracle of life, and too, that many conversions to the faith have occurred. Praise be to God our Father Almighty!
POPE JOHN PAUL II'S
PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
{from his first apostolic visit to Mexico in 1979}
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church! You, 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 people 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 away 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, Mother of Love, 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. We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth.
Thus, Most Holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
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