Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to conquer the

menace of evil, which so easily takes root in the

hearts of the people of today, and whose immeasurable

effects already weigh down upon our modern

world and seem to block the paths toward the

future. From famine and war, deliver us. From

nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction,

from every kind of war, deliver us. From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us. From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us. From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national and international, deliver us. From

readiness to trample on the commandments of

God, deliver us. From attempts to stifle in human

hearts the very truth of God, deliver us. From the

loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.

From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us. Accept,

O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the

sufferings of all individual human beings, laden

with the sufferings of whole societies. Help us with

the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin: individual

sin and the "sin of the world," sin in all its

manifestations. Let there be revealed once more in

the history of the world the power of merciful love.

May it put a stop to evil. May it transform consciences.

May your Immaculate Heart reveal for

all the light of hope. Amen.