Benedict XVI: Tomorrow I go to Loreto, pray for me

Thursday 4 October 2012
WITH the Catholic Church's 'Year of Faith' set to begin next Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict asked for prayers as he prays at  the Marian Shrine at Loreto.

At the end of his Wednesday Audience Pope Benedict said: Tomorrow I will visit the Sanctuary of Loreto, on the 50th anniversary of the famous pilgrimage of Blessed Pope John XXIII to that Marian shrine, one week before the opening of the Second Vatican Council. I ask you to join me in prayer in recommending major ecclesial events that we are about to live (The Year of Faith and the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization), to the Mother of God.

May the Holy Virgin accompany the Church in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the men and women of our time.