Prayer to Our Lady of Good Welcome

	O Mary, give us attentive, humble and gentle hearts able to welcome with tenderness and compassion all the poor that you send us. Give us hearts full of mercy able to love and serve, and quench all divisions and to see in our suffering and broken brothers the presence of the living Jesus. Lord, bless us from the hand of your poor; Lord, smile to us through the eyes of your poor; Lord, receive us one day in the blessed company of your poor. Amen Jean Vanier, Founder of L'Arche