Painting by Joseph Stella

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

you have given the world it's true light.

Jesus, your Son - the Son of God.

You abandoned yourself completely 

to God's call

and thus became a wellspring

of the goodness which flows forth from him.

Show us Jesus, Lead us to him.

Teach us to know and love him,

so that we too can become

capable of true love

and the fountains of a living water

in the midst of a thirsting world.

Pope Benedict XVI

God Is Love