O ever-Immaculate Virgin, you revealed Yourself to Bernadette in the hollow rock. You brought Your warmth and Your presence, light and beauty to the cold and dark. Bring us hope and faith in our obscure and hollow lives, bring it to this hollow world where Evil prevails!

Immaculate Conception, come help us sinners.

Grant us the courage to do penance, and the humility to convert. Teach us to pray for mankind. Show us the way to true life. Make us pilgrims, walking the road to Your Church. Whet our appetites for the Eucharist, the bread of life.

The Holy Spirit accomplished its wonders in You, O Holy Mother: in Its might it placed You next to the Father, in the glory of Your Son, alive forevermore. Look with kindness to the misery of our bodies and hearts. Shine for us, like a gentle light, at the time of our death.

Through Bernadette we pray to You, O Mary, with the simplicity of children. Like her, let us enter the spirit of the Beatitudes, so that we may know the glory of the Kingdom and exclaim with You: Magnificat!

Glory to You, Virgin Mary, joyous handmaid of the Lord, Mother of God, house to the Holy Spirit!

Amen.”