Let us pray the Novena to Our Lady of Grace with faith, entrusting our lives and all our needs to the Blessed Virgin.
Learn how to pray the Novena of Our Lady of Grace
Begin by invoking the presence of the Holy Trinity
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Act of contrition (for every day)
My Lord, Jesus Christ, true God and Man, my Creator and Redeemer, because You are who You are, supremely good and worthy of being loved above all things, and because I love and esteem You, it weighs on me, Lord, for having You I am offended and it also weighs on me for having lost Heaven and deserved Hell.
I firmly propose, with the help of Your divine grace and through the powerful intercession of Your Most Holy Mother, to amend myself and never again offend You. I hope to achieve forgiveness for my sins, through Your infinite mercy.
So be it.
Meditation on the Word for each day of the Novena
1st day – First appearance of Our Lady of Graces
Let us contemplate the Immaculate Virgin in her first appearance to Saint Catherine Labouré.
The pious novice, guided by her Guardian Angel, is presented to the Immaculate Lady. Let us consider her ineffable joy.
We will also be happy like Saint Catherine if we work ardently on our sanctification.
We will enjoy the delights of Paradise if we deprive ourselves of earthly pleasures.
2nd day – Tears of the Holy Mary
Let us contemplate Mary crying over the calamities that would come upon the world, thinking that the heart of her Son would be outraged on the cross, mocked, and her favorite children persecuted.
Let us trust in the compassionate Virgin and also share in the fruit of her tears.
3rd day – Protection of the Holy Mother of Jesus
Let us contemplate Our Immaculate Mother, saying, in her apparitions, to Saint Catherine:
“I myself will be with you: I will not let you out of my sight and I will grant you abundant graces.”
Be for me, Immaculate Virgin, the shield and defense in all needs.
4th day – Second apparition of Our Lady of Graces
While Saint Catherine Labouré was in prayer, on November 27, 1830, the Virgin Mary appeared to her, very beautiful, crushing the head of the infernal serpent.
In this apparition, we see his immense desire to always protect us against the enemy of our salvation.
Let us invoke the Immaculate Mother with confidence and love.
5th day – Mary’s hands
Let us contemplate, today, Mary releasing luminous rays from her hands.
“These rays, said She, are the figure of the graces that I pour out on all those who ask for them and those who bring my medal with faith”.
Let us not waste so many graces!
Let us ask, with fervor, humility and perseverance, for Mary Immaculate will reach us.
6th day – Third apparition
Let us contemplate Mary appearing to Saint Catherine, radiant with light, full of kindness, surrounded by stars, ordering a medal to be minted and promising many graces to all who bring her with devotion and love.
Let us fervently guard the Holy Medal, because, like a shield, it will protect us from dangers.
7th day – Supplication
O Miraculous Virgin, Excellency Queen Immaculate Lady, be my advocate, my refuge and asylum on this earth, my consolation in sorrows and afflictions, my strength and advocate at the time of death.
8th day – Supplication
O Immaculate Virgin of the Miraculous Medal, make these luminous rays that radiate from your virginal hands illuminate my intelligence to better know the good and open my heart with living feelings of faith, hope and charity.
9th day – Supplication
O Immaculate Mother, make the cross of your Medal always shine before my eyes, soften the pains of the present life and lead me to eternal life.
Supplication to Our Lady of Graces for every day
O Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and our Mother, when contemplating you with open arms pouring out graces on those who ask you, full of confidence in your powerful intercession, manifested countless times by the Miraculous Medal, although recognizing our unworthiness because of our countless faults, we approach your feet to expose you, during this prayer, our most pressing needs.
(moment of silence and asking for the desired grace)
Grant, therefore, O Virgin of the Miraculous Medal, this favor that we confidently ask of you, for the greater glory of God, the aggrandizement of your name, and the good of our souls.
And to better serve Your Divine Son, inspire in us a deep hatred of sin and give us the courage to always affirm ourselves as true Christians.
Amen.
To pray
3 Hail Marys
Pray the Jaculatory
“O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you!”
Final prayer (for every day)
Most Holy Virgin, I recognize and confess your Holy and Immaculate Conception, pure and without stain.
O most pure Virgin Mary, by your Immaculate Conception and glorious prerogative of Mother of God, obtain for me from your beloved Son humility, charity, obedience, chastity, holy purity of heart, body and spirit; obtain for me perseverance in doing good, a holy life, a good death and the grace of (a grace is asked for) which I ask with all confidence.
Amen.
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