Our Lady of Work, I offer you my work, my daily tasks, my successes. I also offer you my failures, my expectations and my fears, my hopes and my ambitions.

To those who have a job, give the joy of a job well done and the joy of true fulfillment.

To those burdened by exhausting or degrading work, to those seeking employment, who feel useless or rejected, give confidence and perseverance.

To those who bear the worries of responsibility, who work in the anxiety of tomorrow or the discouragement of routine, to those who flee the reality of daily life, give the dynamism of hope.

To those who bear the beautiful labor of childbirth, give radiance in the joy of expectation and peace in anxiety. Be the consolation of those to whom life seems to refuse itself.

Our Lady of Work, O our mother, give us the strength and docility of Saint Joseph. give us the gentleness and kindness that opens closed hearts. teach us poverty in wealth, patience in destitution. Give us concern for the poor and tenderness for the most fragile. May our hands be yours to encourage, comfort, console, and our hearts yours to share, love and live mercy. Amen.