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Read and listen to our prayer of December 12, 2022

This difficult moment is also a time of salvation, in which the Lord, through the Virgin Mary, continues to give us his Son, who calls us to brotherhood, to put aside selfishness, indifference and antagonism, and to make us burdened by each other.
Pope Francis via Twitter

Beloved Holy Father Francis, we would have loved to introduce you to our angel on earth, before he became an angel of heaven.

We were close to you, in our "Roman holiday" which lasted 13 months, where other angels ofBambino Gesù Children's Hospital they gave us the best and last months of our boy's earthly life, immediately became a man.

Thursday 12 December, last week

In our every step, in every moment of our family life we felt your love, we felt the embrace of Jesus, we felt the maternal warmth of Mary.

This evening we pray with fervor and feeling Saint Lucia: give us the holy sight of the heart and the vision of love between our brothers and sisters.

Saint Lucia, who preferred to let your eyes be gouged out so as not to deny your faith and stain your soul; and God, with an extraordinary miracle, gave you back two more healthy and perfect eyes to reward your virtue and your faith, and made you protector against eye diseases, I turn to you to protect my sight and cure my disease of my eyes.

O Saint Lucia, preserve the light of my eyes so that I can see the beauty of creation.

Also preserve the eyes of my soul, the faith, through which I can recognize my God, understand his teachings, recognize his love towards me and never err on the path that will lead me where you are, Saint Lucia, in company of angels and saints.

Saint Lucia, protect my eyes and keep my faith. Amen.