Conclave
The Election of a New Pope
The Conclave begins this Wednesday, May 7, 2025. This page offers resources and prayers. During the Conclave, the faithful are encouraged to invoke the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church and Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church.
Invitation to all the Catholic Faithful in Canada on the Occasion of the Conclave
Questions and Answers on the Process of Electing a Pope
Come, Holy Spirit
It has been a tradition, as a private devotion, to ask for the grace of the Holy Spirit. This practice is especially suitable during the Eastertide. To do so, families may use the following prayer.
All: Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Leader: Send forth your Spirit, O Lord,
All: and renew the face of the earth.
Leader: O God, on the first Pentecost
you instructed the hearts of those who believed in you
by the light of the Holy Spirit:
under the inspiration of the same Spirit,
give us a taste for what is right and true
and a continuing sense of his joy-bringing presence
and power,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Veni, creator Spiritus / Come, Creator Spirit blest
Collect for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Collect for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
O God, Father of mercies,
whose Only Begotten Son, as he hung upon the Cross,
chose the Blessed Virgin Mary, his Mother,
to be our Mother also,
grant, we pray, that with her loving help
your Church may be more fruitful day by day
and, exulting in the holiness of her children,
may draw to her embrace all the families of the peoples.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Rosary
Litany to St. Joseph
Media Advisory
Excerpts from Blessings and Prayers for Home and Family, copyright © Concacan Inc., 2004. All rights reserved.
English translation of the Prayer for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, from The Roman Missal, © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL). All rights reserved; © Concacan Inc., 2011 for the Canadian Edition. All rights reserved; © Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008 for the Latin text. All rights reserved.