Reverence for Life

October is Reverence for Life Month. Together we pray:

O Mary, 

bright dawn of the new world, 

Mother of the living, 

to you do we entrust the cause of life. 

Look down, O Mother, 

upon the vast numbers 

of babies not allowed to be born, 

of the poor whose lives are made difficult, 

of men and women 

who are victims of brutal violence, 

of the elderly and the sick killed 

by indifference or out of misguided mercy. 

Grant that all who believe in your Son 

may proclaim the Gospel of life 

with honesty and love 

to the people of our time. 

Obtain for them the grace 

to accept that Gospel 

as a gift ever new, 

the joy of celebrating it with gratitude 

throughout their lives 

and the courage to bear witness to it 

resolutely, in order to build, 

together with all people of good will, 

the civilization of truth and love, 

to the praise and glory of God, 

the Creator and lover of life. 

—John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 105