Friday, September 7, 2007

Novena to our Lady of Lourdes

(Starting 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 favours,
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...

(Make your request here...)

Through gratitude for your favours,
we will endeavor to imitate your virtues,
that we may on 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.



Day One

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 favourable answer
to the request for which we are making this novena...

(Make your request here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Two

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 here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Three

"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 thee 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 here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Four

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 favour
on the grace we seek in this novena...

(Make your request here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Five

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 favourably upon any request
you make of Him in our behalf,
we beseech you to come to our aid
and secure for us the favour we seek in this novena...

(Make your request here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Six

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 benign Heart of Jesus
all the helps and graces necessary
for our spiritual and temporal welfare
and for the special favour we so earnestly seek in this novena...

(Make your request here...)
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 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 Seven

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.
And, O most gracious Mother Mary,
beloved Mother of Our Lord and Redeemer,
look with favour upon us as you did that day on Bernadette
and intercede with him for us
that the favour we now so earnestly seek may be granted to us...

(Make your request here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Eight

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 magic 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 favour we seek in this novena...

(Make your request here...)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious 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 Nine

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 favour we seek at this time...

(Make your request here...)
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 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.