Prayer to Saint John Paul II to be recited today to implore graces

O Holy Trinity,
we thank you for giving to the Church
Pope John Paul II
and for making the tenderness of your fatherhood shine in him, the glory of the Cross of Christ and the splendor of the Spirit of Love.
He, totally trusting in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary,
he gave us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd and showed us Holiness as a high measure of ordinary Christian life, as a way to reach eternal communion with you.
By his intercession, grant us, according to your will, the grace that we implore ...
in the hope that he will soon be counted to the number of your saints. Amen