O Lord Jesus Christ

O Lord Jesus Christ,

keep these young people in your love.

Let them hear your voice and believe what you say,

for you alone have the words of life.

Teach them how to profess their faith,

bestow their love, and impart their hope to others.

Make them convincing witnesses to your Gospel

in a world so much in need of your saving grace.

Make them the new people of the Beatitudes,

that they may be the salt of the earth and the light of the world

at the beginning of the Third Christian Millennium!

Amen.