Dear Merciful Father of Love, we offer this heart-felt prayer for the intention that Thou will send to Thy people a good Pope at this crucial time in human history. We pray for a peaceful and fruitful conclave, through the special assistance of the Holy Ghost, that will result in a tradition-minded Pope of strong mettle with a deep love and complete fidelity to Holy Mother Church, even unto martyrdom.

We pray that St. Peter, the first Vicar of Christ, and all of his good successors down through the ages, intercede for us before the Father’s throne to help ensure a valid and successful Papal outcome lest “a man of dark secrets and spirit, the antichrist pope” captures the Seat of Peter.

We beseech the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, under the glorious title of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers, so named and especially enriched by Thee for these dark days, to secure for us a holy Vicar of Christ.

And we ask our beloved seer and mentor, Veronica of the Cross, who with her untold suffering and generous spirit, was a willing and continuous sacrificial offering for the Pope. She has found favor with Thee, Good Father, and as the first Bayside devotee knows above all the urgency and gravity of our petition. May she hear the cries of her soulmates and assist us in our critical hour.

We ask all this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, One God, world without end. Amen.