Saint Gianna, heroically Christlike wife, mother and

physician, I ask the help of your prayers, as I strive to follow

your holy example in my physical and spiritual trials.

Help me, by your prayers, to recognize the suffering of the

Cross as the way to pure and selfless love of God and my

neighbor. May your practice of medicine with priestly care of

both body and soul inspire physicians to see the Face of the

suffering Christ in their patients.

May your loving acceptance of illness and death help

patients to know and do God's will in all things, uniting their

sufferings to the Passion and Death of Christ for the salvation

of the world.

Saint Gianna, pray for us always that we may have a heart,

meek and courageous, like the Heart of Jesus, in Whom we

find our healing and strength.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke

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