Happy new year to all of you my dear blog readers. May God grace you with another prosperous year and another year filled with all the blessings imaginable! I've written here the prayer to Our Lady for the new year composed by Pope John Paul the Great:

Mother of the Redeemer, with great joy we call you blessed.

In order to carry out His plan for salvation, God the Father chose you before the creation of the world. You believed in His Love and obeyed his word. The Son of God desired you for His Mother, when he became man to save the human race you received him with ready obedience and undivided heart.

The Holy Spirit loved you as His mystical spouse and he filled you with singular gift. You allowed yourself to be led by his hidden and powerful action.

On the eve of this new year we entrust you the church which acknowledges you and invokes you as Mother.

To yo, Mother of the human family and of the nations we confidently entrust the whole of humanity with its hopes and fears. Do not let it lack the light of true wisdom Guide its steps in the ways of peace.Enable all to meet Christ the Way and the Truth and the Life.

Sustain us O Virgin Mary on our journey of faith and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation. O clement , O loving , O sweet Mother of God and our Mother Mary!

Amen