Novena

[RHC]

One thing I think is obvious from the introductions in this forum is that many of us are concerned about conscience rights protection for healthcare professionals.

It is time to hit our knees and pray.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas - and Patroness of the unborn. Let us ask her for intercession with Our Lord for our land.

O Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all, we turn to you today as the one who said "Yes" to Life. "You will conceive and bear a Son," the angel told you. Despite the surprise and the uncertainty about how this could be, you said yes. "Be it done unto me according to your word."

O Mary, grant our leaders sight to see how devastating these proposed laws would be to our land!

Blessed Mother, we pray for ourselves as healthcare professionals. May we have the courage to stand for truth and justice, remembering always that your Son walks beside us. May we always do what is right in God's eyes.

But, most of all, Blessed Mother, we pray today for all mothers who are afraid to be mothers. We pray for those who feel threatened and overwhelmed by their pregnancy. Intercede for them, that God may give them the grace to say yes and the courage to go on. May they have the grace to reject the false solution of abortion. May they say with you, "Be it done unto me according to your word." May they experience the help of Christian people, and know the peace that comes from doing God's will. Amen.

To the Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver of Life:

Come Holy Spirit, Creator of all things...You who breathed over the waters at the dawn of creation and brought forth all living beings...You who filled the apostles when the Risen Lord breathed on them on the first Easter night, giving them the power to restore life to those dead in sin...You who, on the last day, will breathe again over all the dead and raise them from the grave--Come! Come and breathe on our world again, immersed as it is in the Culture of Death! Come, O Lord and Giver of Life! Defeat the works of death in our midst, that abortion may no longer stain our land.

We worship You, O Holy Spirit, and we rejoice in You. We know that no matter how strong the forces of death may be, we can still find in You the endless source of life. Renew that life in each of us, and make us worthy apostles of the Culture of Life in our day! Amen.