Thank you, God, for giving us such a holy, intelligent and brave Supreme Pontiff.
--My real programme of governance is not to do my own will, not to pursue my own ideas, but to listen, together with the whole Church, to the word and the will of the Lord, to be guided by Him, so that He himself will lead the Church at this hour of our history---
O Lord,
Guide his hand,
Enlighten his mind,
Keep him safe and hale and whole
as long as you have need of him
to be the fisher of men,
your vicar,
our papa.
O Lord,
thank you for sharing him,
and may we,
who hear him speak your words of love,
hasten to respond.
Amen.