The American cardinal Leo Burke, Prefect Emeritus of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in the Vatican and one of the cardinal electors, shared a prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe for the conclave that will begin on May 7.
Cardinal Burke, 76 and one of the 10 wandered in the United States who will be in the conclave, was a bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin state, where he founded the sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Then he was Archbishop of St. Louis. Pope Benedict XVI created him Cardinal in 2010. From 2008 to 2014 he was a prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.
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The purple published in his X account and in Spanish the “prayer of the ninth for the sacred Colegio Cardenalicio” to be prayed until May 5. However and In a note published this Friday 2 In his X account, the cardinal urged everyone to start a second novena for the conclave.
In any case, the purple pray the faithful who continue to pray the prayer and the ninth by the conclave “until the new successor of St. Peter is chosen.”
“I thank all those who have been praying the prayer of the novena or who will begin to pray now. We can trust that Our Lady of Guadalupe will intercede powerfully for the choice of a good and holy pastor for the universal church,” he said.
Then the prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe proposed by the US cardinal:
I knelt before you, oh Virgin Mother of God, Our Lady of Guadalupe, compassionate mother of all who love you and cry for you, look for you and they trust you. I beg for the Church in a moment of great proof and danger to her.
Just as you went to the rescue of the Church in the Tepeyac in 1531, intercede by the Sacred Cardinal College gathered in Rome gathered to choose the successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Christ, pastor of the Universal Church.
At this tumultuous moment for the Church and for the world, pray to your divine Son that the cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, their mystical body, humbly obey the impulses of the Holy Spirit.
That, by your intercession, choose the most worthy man to be a vicar of Christ on earth. With you, I put all my confidence in him who is our only help and salvation. Amen.
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who trust you, have mercy on us!
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Virgen Mother of God and Mother of Divine Grace, pray for us.
Update: This note was originally published on April 30, 2025. The information provided by Cardinal Burke has been added this Friday, May 2.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.