Dearest Lady of Guadalupe, fruitful Mother of Holiness, teach me your ways of gentleness and strength. Hear my prayer offered with deepfelt confidence to beg this favor…. O Mary, conceived without sin, I come to your throne of grace to share the fervent devotion of your faithful Mexican children who call to you under the glorious Aztec title of “Guadalupe” the virgin who crushed the serpent. Queen of Martyrs, whose Immaculate heart was pierced by seven wounds of grief, help me to walk valiantly amid the sharp thorns thrown across my pathway. Queen of Apostles aid me to win souls for the Sacred Heart of my Savior. I plead this through the merits of your merciful Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Inscribed in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (The Basilica Guidebook).
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mystical Rose
Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Mystical Rose,
make intercession for holy Church,
protect the sovereign Pontiff,
help all those who invoke you in their necessities,
and since you are the ever Virgin Mary
and Mother of the true God,
obtain for us from your most holy Son
the grace of keeping our faith,
of sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life,
of burning charity, and the precious gift
of final perseverance.
Amen.
Traditionally attributed to Pope St. Pius X.
In Mexico in 1531, Our Lady appeared to a humble Indian, St. Juan Diego, and asked him to go to the bishop and ask for a church to be built where she appeared. St. Juan Diego took miraculous roses (this was winter time) in his tilma (cape) to the bishop as a sign of Our Lady’s request; when he opened his tilma, a beautiful image of Our Lady as she appeared to St. Juan Diego miraculously appeared on the tilma.
Pope Francis recalled “with what tenderness she said to the Indigenous man, ‘Do not fear…. Am I not here, I who am your mother?’” (homily, 12 December 2024).
The image is venerated to this day in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Our Lady’s feast day under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12. In 1946 Pope Pius XII declared her Patroness of the Americas.
The first prayer is inscribed in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (National Shrine). The second, which honors her as “Mystical Rose,” dates from the early 20th century and is traditionally attributed to Pope St. Pius X.
In the same homily Pope Francis spoke of “the image of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, pregnant, announcing the birth of our Saviour.” She is honored as a special patroness of the unborn. Let us ask for her intercession to end abortion in our land and throughout the whole world, and pray the Prayer to End Abortion.
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