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"Novenas are very popular to Catholics. It
is a traditional Catholic prayer method. A novena is when a series of
prayers are given for nine days straight.
The novena is offered as a sacrifice to God. God sees a novena as a sign
of devotion especially when the person saying the novena asks for a
specific reason.
Many people might think this is some kind of magic, but it isn't. They
are just there to help people talk to God. Novenas are usually very
private, but sometimes at church.Several novenas have been approved and Indulgenced by the Holy See.
Novenas are created as preparation for feasts. In the early days, a
novena was a prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person."
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Prayer
Be blessed, O most pure
Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life,
sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child,
St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times
we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever
Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of
sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our
troubles, our sufferings deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.
By appearing in the
Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged
sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors, and already many have
obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical.
We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore
your maternal intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the
granting of our request. request Through gratitude for your favors,
we will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that we may one day share
your glory.
Our Lady of Lourdes,
Mother of Christ, you had influence with your divine son while upon
earth. You have the same influence now in Heaven. Pray for us;
obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the
Divine Will. Amen.
Our Lady of
Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette,
pray for us.
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DAY 1
O Mary Immaculate, Our
Lady of Lourdes, virgin and mother, queen of heaven, chosen from all
eternity to be the Mother of the Eternal Word and in virtue of this
title preserved from original sin, we kneel before you as did little
Bernadette at Lourdes and pray with childlike trust in you that as
we contemplate your glorious appearance at Lourdes, you will look
with mercy on our present petition and secure for us a favorable
answer to the request for which we are making this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 2
Be blessed, O most pure
Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest yourself shining with
light, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the
child Saint Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception!" O Mary
Immaculate, inflame our hearts with one ray of the burning love of
your pure heart Let them be consumed with love for Jesus and for
you, in order that we may merit one day to enjoy your glorious
eternity. O dispenser of His graces here below, take into your
keeping and present to your Divine Son the petition for which we are
making this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 3
"You are all fair, O
Mary, and there is in you no stain of original sin." O Mary,
conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. O
brilliant star of sanctity, as on that lovely day, upon a rough rock
in Lourdes you spoke to the child Bernadette and a fountain broke
from the plain earth and miracles happened and the great shrine of
Lourdes began, so now I beseech you to hear our fervent prayer and
do, we beseech you, grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 4
O Immaculate Queen of
Heaven, we your wayward, erring children, join our unworthy prayers
of praise and thanksgiving to those of the angels and saints and
your own-the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity may be glorified in
heaven and on earth. Our Lady of Lourdes, as you looked down with
love and mercy upon Bernadette as she prayed her rosary in the
grotto, look down now, we beseech you, with love and mercy upon us.
From the abundance of graces granted you by your Divine Son, sweet
Mother of God, give to each of us all that your motherly heart sees
we need and at this moment look with special favor on the grace we
seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 5
O Mary Immaculate,
Mother of God and our mother, from the heights of your dignity look
down mercifully upon us while we, full of confidence in your
unbounded goodness and confident that your Divine Son will look
favorably upon any request you make of Him in our behalf, we beseech
you to come to our aid and secure for us the favor we seek in this
novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 6
O glorious Mother of
God, so powerful under your special title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to
you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful
intercession in obtaining from the gracious Heart of Jesus all the
helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare
and for the special favor we so earnestly seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Lady of Bernadette, with the stars of heaven in your hair and the
roses of earth at your feet, look with compassion upon us today as
you did so long ago on Bernadette in the Grotto of Lourdes.
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 7
O Almighty God, who by
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary did prepare a
worthy dwelling place for your Son, we humbly beseech you that as we
contemplate the apparition of Our Lady in the Grotto of Lourdes, we
may be blessed with health of mind and body. O most gracious Mother
Mary, beloved Mother of Our Lord and Redeemer, look with favor upon
us as you did that day on Bernadette and intercede with him for us
that the favor we now so earnestly seek may be granted to us.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 8
O Immaculate Mother of
God, from heaven itself you came to appear to the little Bernadette
in the rough Grotto of Lourdes! And as Bernadette knelt at your feet
and the miraculous spring burst forth and as multitudes have knelt
ever since before your shrine, O Mother of God, we kneel before you
today to ask that in your mercy you plead with your Divine Son to
grant the special favor we seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY 9
O glorious Mother of
God, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful
intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the
graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare,
particularly for the grace of a happy death. O Mother of our Divine
Lord, as we conclude this novena for the special favor we seek at
this time.
(make your request)
We feel animated with confidence that your prayers in our behalf
will be graciously heard. O Mother of My Lord, through the love you
bear to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His Name, hear our prayers
and obtain our petitions.
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show
unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and
Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
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