Prayer to Our Lady of Kibeho
Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of the Word, mother of all those who believe in him and welcome him into their lives, we have come here before you to contemplate you. We believe that you are among us, as a mother with her children, even if we cannot see you with our eyes.
You are a sure path, which leads us to Jesus the Savior. We bless you for all the good things that you continue to give us, especially, because you consented to appear in a miraculous way at Kibeho at the time when our world needed you so much.
Give us always the light and the strength, we need to eagerly welcome your call to convert ourselves, to repent and to live according to the Gospel of your Son.
Teach us to pray without hypocrisy and to love one another as He loved us, so that, as you have asked us, we might always be like beautiful flowers with beautiful perfume spreading everywhere.
O Holy Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the Cross in our lives. By offering our sufferings to his, help us to complete in our own flesh what is missing in the sufferings of Christ in favor of his mystical body, which is the Church.
And when our pilgrimage here on earth has ended, we will live forever with you in the Kingdom of heaven. Amen.
+Augustin Misago, Bishop of Gikongoro, Rwanda Diocese March 25, 2006
Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of the Word, mother of all those who believe in him and welcome him into their lives, we have come here before you to contemplate you. We believe that you are among us, as a mother with her children, even if we cannot see you with our eyes.
You are a sure path, which leads us to Jesus the Savior. We bless you for all the good things that you continue to give us, especially, because you consented to appear in a miraculous way at Kibeho at the time when our world needed you so much.
Give us always the light and the strength, we need to eagerly welcome your call to convert ourselves, to repent and to live according to the Gospel of your Son.
Teach us to pray without hypocrisy and to love one another as He loved us, so that, as you have asked us, we might always be like beautiful flowers with beautiful perfume spreading everywhere.
O Holy Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the Cross in our lives. By offering our sufferings to his, help us to complete in our own flesh what is missing in the sufferings of Christ in favor of his mystical body, which is the Church.
And when our pilgrimage here on earth has ended, we will live forever with you in the Kingdom of heaven. Amen.
+Augustin Misago, Bishop of Gikongoro, Rwanda Diocese March 25, 2006
