Recommended Book: Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy (paid link)

Dear God,
I offer You this day
all that I shall do, think and say
uniting it with what was begun on Earth
when the Virgin Mary consented to give birth
and with what was done on the Cross
when Jesus redeemed our loss.

Submitted to Catholic Prayers by Kevin Denny on Friday, July 23, 1999.