NOVENA PRAYER
Mother of Perpetual help, thu art the dispenser
of every grace that God grants us in our misery.
For this reason He hast
made thee so powerful, so rich, and so kind that thou might help us in
our needs.
Thou art the advocate
of the most wretched and abandoned sinners, if they but come to thee.
Come
to my aid for I commend myself to thee.
In thy hands I place my eternal salvation; to thee I entrust my soul.
Count me among thy most faithful servants. Take
me under thy protection; that is enough for me.
If thou doth protect me, I shall fear nothing: not
my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me their pardon
and remission; not
the evil spirits, because thou art mightier than all the powers of
Hell;
not even Jesus, my Judge, because He is appeased by a single prayer of
thine.
I fear only that through my own negligence I may
forget
to recommend myself to thee and so lose my soul.
My dear Lady, obtainest for me the forgiveness of
my sins,
love for Jesus, final perseverance,
and the grace
to have
recourse to thee at all times, Mother of Perpetual
Help.
TRADITIONAL PRAYER
TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
[TO BE RECITED
FOR NINE CONSECUTIVE DAYS IF USED FOR A NOVENA]
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHAPLET
On the Crucifix say the Hail, Holy
Queen.
On the large beads say: Mary can help us, Mary will help us,
Mary wants to help us, Mary must help us.
On the small beads say:
Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us.
End with the Memorare to Mary.
PRAYER OF CONFIDENCE
O Holy Virgin Mary, who to inspire us with boundless confidence, hast been pleased to take the sweet name of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, I implore thee to come to my aid always and everywhere in my temptations, after my falls, in my difficulties, in all the miseries of life, and above all, at the hour of my death. Give me, O loving Mother, the desire and the habit always to have recourse to thee trusting that thou wilt be faithful and come to my assistance. Obtain for me the this grace of graces, the grace to pray to thee without ceasing and with childlike confidence, that I mayest ensure thy perpetual help and final perseverance. O Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me now and at the hour of my death. Amen.For Private Use Only.
O Mother
of Perpetual Help,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may love God with all my heart,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may in all things conform my will to that of thy Divine Son,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may always shun sin, the only real evil,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may always remember my last end,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may often and devoutly receive the Sacraments,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may avoid every proximate occasion of sin,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may never neglect prayer,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may ever remember to invoke thee,
particularly
in time of temptation,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may always be victorious in the hour of temptation,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may generously pardon my enemies,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may arise quickly, should I have the misfortune
of
falling into mortal sin,
Come to my aid.
O loving Mother.
That
I may courageously resist the seductions of evil companions,
Come to my aid.
O loving Mother.
That
I may be strong against my own inconstancy,
Come to my aid.
O loving Mother.
That
I may not delay my conversion from day to day,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may labor zealously to eradicate my evil habits,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may ever love to serve thee,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may lead others to love and serve thee,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
That
I may live and die in the friendship of God,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
all necessities of body and soul,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
sickness and pain,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
poverty and distress,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
persecution and abandonment,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
in grief and dereliction of mind,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
time of war, famine and contagion,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
In
every danger of sin,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
assailed by the evil spirits,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
tempted by the allurements of a deceitful world,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
struggling against the inclinations of my corrupt nature,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
tempted against the holy virtue of purity,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
death is nigh,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
the loss of my senses shall warn me that my
earthly
career is at an end,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
the thought of my approaching dissolution shall fill me with fear and
terror,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
at the decisive hour of death, the evil spirit will endeavor
to
plunge my soul into despair,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
the priest of God shall give me Extreme Unction,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
my friends and relations, surrounding my bed moved with compassion,
shall
invoke thy clemency on my behalf,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
the world will vanish from my sight, and my heart will cease to beat,,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
I shall yield my soul into the hands of its Creator,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
my soul will appear before its Sovereign Judge,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
the irrevocable sentence will be pronounced,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
When
I will be suffering in Purgatory, and sighing for the vision of God,
Come to my aid,
O loving Mother.
Let us pray.
O Almighty
and merciful God, Who, in order to succor the human race, hast willed
the
Blessed Virgin Mary to become the Mother of Thy only-begotten Son,
grant,
we beseech Thee, that by her intercession we may avoid the contagion of
sin and serve Thee with a pure heart, through the same Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Consecration to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
DESIRING to consecrate myself entirely to the service of the ever
Blessed Virgin Mary, from whom, after God, I expect all help and
assistance in life and in death,
I unite myself to the members of the pious archconfraternity, which has
been erected in honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
As my special patron I choose the the glorious Saint Alphonsus, that he
may obtain for me a true and lasting devotion to the ever Blessed
Virgin, Who
is honored by so sweet a name.
I promise moreover, to renew my consecration to the Mother of God and
to Saint Alphonsus at least once each month, and frequently to receive
the Holy
Sacraments.
Mother of Perpetual Help, receive me as thy servant, and grant that I
may ever experience thy constant motherly protection. I promise to have
recourse to thee
in all my spiritual and temporal necessities.
My holy patron, Saint Alphonsus, obtain for me the grace of an ardent
love for Jesus Christ and the grace of invoking our Mother of Perpetual
Help.
Amen.
Traditional Prayer
O God, Who hast willed that the Mother of Thine Only-begotten Son
should be the perpetual succor of Christians on earth, grant us grace
to call
on her with confidence in all our necessities of soul and body, so
that, saved through her protection and assistance, we may be brought to
the everlasting
vision of Thy glory in Heaven, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.