Our Lady of the New Advent

In the Diocese of Denver, today is the feast day of Our Lady of the New Advent, a title for Mary created by Pope John Paul II who foresaw the third millenium as a New Advent, a new coming of Jesus into the hearts of believers. The icon was created by Fr. William McNichols and can be viewed via Google under Our Lady of the New Advent. We have placed a large copy of this image in our lobby between our Advent Wreath and our Christmas Tree, and this morning, each faculty and staff member received a 4 x 6 card with this prayer which we can make our own today and for the remainder of Advent:
Our Lady and Mother of the One who was and is and is to come, dawn of the New Jerusalem, we earnestly beseech you, bring us by your intercession so to live in love that the Church, the Body of Christ, may stand in the world's dark as a fiery icon of the New Jerusalem. We ask you to to obtain for us this mercy through Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord, who lives and reigns with the Father in the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Truly we are in a period of the "world's dark" and need to pray earnestly and constantly for the Light of Christ to dispell it, and we need to "live in love", that is put love into all our words, actions of kindness, and acts of forgiveness, so that little by little we can influence our "little worlds" and let the ripple effect take hold in the larger world.
Bro. Rene