September 15, 2019
O Loving Mother, join your prayers to our petitions
for those who do not cease to be your children
even though they have abandoned the faith and fallen into sin.
May a remembrance of your love and beauty
touch their hearts at depths we cannot reach.
As at Pentecost, so now pray for the Church;
pray for our parish, our priests, our Brothers and our Sisters,
and for all of us, who strive to serve others
in the name of Jesus, your Son.
With all generations, we will ever call you blessed, O Mary,
our Mother of Perpetual Help, for God, the Almighty,
has indeed done great things for you,
and you have been and are so gracious to us:
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.