Today the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The concluding prayer for Morning Prayer seems particularly fitting to share on Ordinatus because of the way it links God’s justice in our hearts with God’s peace in the world. For that link to be effective, God’s justice must not only infuse our hearts but also be actualized in ways that bring about God’s peace. Here is the prayer:

God of power and mercy,
You blessed the Americas at Tepeyac
with the presence of the Virgin Mary at Guadalupe.

May her prayers help all men and women
to accept each other as brothers and sisters.

Through Your justice present in our hearts
may Your peace reign in the world

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the Unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

Amen.