Prayer to the Blessed Mother for those in Consecrated Life

Most glorious and ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the Word was made flesh in your womb.  Help us to be open to the Word of God so that, having welcomed it, received it, and meditated upon it, it may grow in our hearts. Help us to live, like you, in the spirit of the Beatitudes and to dedicate ourselves with unceasing charity to evangelizing all those who seek your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Intercede in behalf of those whom your Son has called to share his gospel as modern day prophets.  Be a constant source of strength and protection to our nuns and monks, sisters and brothers, and all those in the consecrated life.  Grant that they may serve every person in purity and that, having heard and kept the Word of God, they may be living witnesses to the eternal kingdom.  Amen.