O Maria,
orbis novi diluculum,
Mater viventium,
causam omnem tibimet vitae commendamus:
multitudinem, Mater, respice innumeram
infantium quibus interdicitur ne nascantur,
pauperum quibus vivere ipsum redditur asperum,
mulierum et virorum quibus inhumana crudelitas infligitur,
senum atque aegrotantium quibus indifferens animus
mortem attulit pietasve fucata.
Credentes tuum in Filium effice
ut Evangelium vitae
candide sciant amanterque
nostrae aetatis hominibus nuntiare.
Ipsis gratiam impetrato
ut veluti novum usque donum illud amplexentur,
laetitiam vero ut memori mente
in vitae suae perpetuitate id venerentur,
pariter constantiam
ut actuosa idem tenacitate testificentur
unde universis cum bonae voluntatis hominibus
civilem veritatis amorisque cultum exstruere possint,
ad Dei vitae Conditoris et amatoris laudem atque gloriam.
Link to Evangelium Vitae in Latin. Prayer is at Conclusion before footnotes...
O Mary!
Bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life:
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers
of babies not allowed to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult,
of men and women
who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and the sick killed
by indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life
with honesty and love
to the people of our time.
Obtain for them the grace to accept
That Gospel as a gift ever new,
the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives
and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely,
In order to build, together with all people of good will,
the civilization of truth and love,
to the praise and glory of God, the Creator and lover of life.
Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995
From the Encyclical Evangelium Vitae
On the occasion of the Feast of the Annunication