In 1979, the Church in America was in shambles. There truly was a vocational crisis with many religious jumping Ship and seminarys closing at high rate of speed. There was Mass confusion. There was no Catechism. There was no Adoration to speak of. People were leaving the Church in droves. It was illegal to wear a Roman collar as a Priest in Mexico. Many Catholics had a huge identity crisis. Even America at large was in the midst of a nuclear cold war. Unemployment was high and interest rates were high. Only after three months of assuming the helm of the Barque of Peter, a Man in White traveled from Rome to Mexico City and prayed a prayer. And now look at us. Dioceses are building seminarys again. Religious orders are growing. We know what the Mass is and always has been. And were proud of it! Its hard to find a Parish that does NOT have Adoration. We have a Catechism to guide people in the Way and correct error. There is FINALLY a decline in Catholic divorce. Protestants are discovering The Rock that has been patiently waiting for them the whole time. The Church is growing faster than the world population. Thanks be to GOD and the Ark He chooses to work through and glorify! Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church, 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 peoples; 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 way 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 Gods 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, 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. His Holiness Pope John Paul II Mexico, January 1979 Pope Saint John Paul II, the Great, pray for us!
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