One of the most common popular piety practices dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the celebration of the Perpetual Novena in her honor.
The name “perpetual novena” comes from the fact that the prayers that are part of this devotion are not prayed on a specific day of the week, but every week of the year, without interruption.
Learn how to pray the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help with us.
Before starting the Novena, it is necessary to follow these initial steps:
– Collect yourself in prayer at home or in a church;
– Make a request for the grace you so desire to achieve;
– Pray the daily prayer;
– Pray one Our Father and three Hail Marys;
– Do your good work every day. It can be exchanged for a more convenient one.
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Let us begin by invoking the presence of the Holy Trinity
By the Sign of the Holy Cross, deliver us God, Our Lord, from our enemies. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
First day
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
(Pope John Paul II)
Virgin of Perpetual Help, Holy Mother of the Redeemer, help your people who long to rise again. Give everyone the joy of walking in conscious and active solidarity with the poorest, proclaiming in a new and courageous way the Gospel of your Son, the foundation and summit of all human coexistence that aspires to true, just and lasting peace. Like the Baby Jesus we admire in this venerable Icon, we too want to shake your hand. You lack neither the power nor the kindness to help us in every need and in every request. Now is your time! Come, therefore, to our aid and be refuge and hope for all of us.
Amen!
Kind Mother of Perpetual Help, who has experienced the anguish of life, accept my request. You are the mother and you have the desire to help everyone, here is someone who is a sinner, but who turns to you. Kind mother, help me without delay.
Concrete gesture: make a gift to a charity.
Meditating with the Gospel: “Behold your mother” (cf. Jn 19:27)
Final Prayer to the Queen of Peace
O Mother of Perpetual Help, before Your Kind gaze, I place myself humbly, resorting as a son to Your Maternal kindness. You are my refuge, hope and protection. Respond, O Queen, to the desire I have to possess Eternal Love, the grace of God the Father, Salvation for my soul and for the lives of those for whom I plead.
Always give me the grace to follow Jesus, in virtues and holiness of life. Receive, O Most Holy Queen, my prayers and needs, raising my heart to Your Son, my Lord and Redeemer.
(Request the grace you want to achieve)
I consecrate to You my eyes so that they may be the lamp of my soul, my ears so that they may always be attentive to the calls of the Gospel, my mouth so that they may always proclaim that You are the light of my life.
I consecrate to You, O Incomparable Mother, my joy and my pain, my mind and my heart, my life and my death in the desire for endless eternity. I consecrate my entire being to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help, carrying my cross and renouncing all evil.
Amen!
Pray the I believe1 Our Father3 Hail Marys It is Glory to the Father.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us!
Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! For ever be praised.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Second day
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
(Pope John Paul II)
Virgin of Perpetual Help, Holy Mother of the Redeemer, help your people who long to rise again. Give everyone the joy of walking in conscious and active solidarity with the poorest, proclaiming in a new and courageous way the Gospel of your Son, the foundation and summit of all human coexistence that aspires to true, just and lasting peace. Like the Baby Jesus we admire in this venerable Icon, we too want to shake your hand. You lack neither the power nor the kindness to help us in every need and in every request. Now is your time! Come, therefore, to our aid and be refuge and hope for all of us.
Amen!
Mother of Perpetual Help, help me to always belong to God. Everything passes like wind, God remains. I want to be God’s and that’s why I beg you: help me in this life, help me not to lose God in my suffering and needs. Kind mother, increase my faith, trust, and help me with your love.
Concrete gesture: carrying out a work of love at home.
Meditating with the Gospel: “My spirit rejoices in God” (cf. Lk 1, 47)
Final Prayer to the Queen of Peace
O Mother of Perpetual Help, before Your Kind gaze, I place myself humbly, resorting as a son to Your Maternal kindness. You are my refuge, hope and protection. Respond, O Queen, to the desire I have to possess Eternal Love, the grace of God the Father, Salvation for my soul and for the lives of those for whom I plead.
Always give me the grace to follow Jesus, in virtues and holiness of life. Receive, O Most Holy Queen, my prayers and needs, raising my heart to Your Son, my Lord and Redeemer.
(Request the grace you want to achieve)
I consecrate to You my eyes so that they may be the lamp of my soul, my ears so that they may always be attentive to the calls of the Gospel, my mouth so that they may always proclaim that You are the light of my life.
I consecrate to You, O Incomparable Mother, my joy and my pain, my mind and my heart, my life and my death in the desire for endless eternity. I consecrate my entire being to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help, carrying my cross and renouncing all evil.
Amen!
Pray the I believe1 Our Father3 Hail Marys It is Glory to the Father.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us!
Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! For ever be praised.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Third day
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
(Pope John Paul II)
Virgin of Perpetual Help, Holy Mother of the Redeemer, help your people who long to rise again. Give everyone the joy of walking in conscious and active solidarity with the poorest, proclaiming in a new and courageous way the Gospel of your Son, the foundation and summit of all human coexistence that aspires to true, just and lasting peace. Like the Baby Jesus we admire in this venerable Icon, we too want to shake your hand. You lack neither the power nor the kindness to help us in every need and in every request. Now is your time! Come, therefore, to our aid and be refuge and hope for all of us.
Amen!
Kind Mother, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, you understood and always did what God wanted, remove from me the hardness of heart, the pride, the selfishness of only thinking about myself. Help me, kind mother, to follow God’s will and grant me the grace I ask of you.
Concrete gesture: before going to sleep, thank God for everything that happened that day.
Meditating with the Gospel: “Thy will be done” (cf. Mt 6, 10)
Final Prayer to the Queen of Peace
O Mother of Perpetual Help, before Your Kind gaze, I place myself humbly, resorting as a son to Your Maternal kindness. You are my refuge, hope and protection. Respond, O Queen, to the desire I have to possess Eternal Love, the grace of God the Father, Salvation for my soul and for the lives of those for whom I plead.
Always give me the grace to follow Jesus, in virtues and holiness of life. Receive, O Most Holy Queen, my prayers and needs, raising my heart to Your Son, my Lord and Redeemer.
(Request the grace you want to achieve)
I consecrate to You my eyes so that they may be the lamp of my soul, my ears so that they may always be attentive to the calls of the Gospel, my mouth so that they may always proclaim that You are the light of my life.
I consecrate to You, O Incomparable Mother, my joy and my pain, my mind and my heart, my life and my death in the desire for endless eternity. I consecrate my entire being to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help, carrying my cross and renouncing all evil.
Amen!
Pray the I believe1 Our Father3 Hail Marys It is Glory to the Father.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us!
Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! For ever be praised.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Fourth day
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
(Pope John Paul II)
Virgin of Perpetual Help, Holy Mother of the Redeemer, help your people who long to rise again. Give everyone the joy of walking in conscious and active solidarity with the poorest, proclaiming in a new and courageous way the Gospel of your Son, the foundation and summit of all human coexistence that aspires to true, just and lasting peace. Like the Baby Jesus we admire in this venerable Icon, we too want to shake your hand. You lack neither the power nor the kindness to help us in every need and in every request. Now is your time! Come, therefore, to our aid and be refuge and hope for all of us.
Amen!
Mother of Jesus and my mother, give me a heart to help others, merciful to always forgive, humble and meek to bear and bear their weaknesses. Jesus said that I always do to him what I do to others, so help me to better love God and my brothers. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, help me with the grace I ask of you.
Concrete gesture: offering a donation to a person in need.
Meditating on the Gospel: “every time you did it to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me” (cf. Mt 25:40)
Final Prayer to the Queen of Peace
O Mother of Perpetual Help, before Your Kind gaze, I place myself humbly, resorting as a son to Your Maternal kindness. You are my refuge, hope and protection. Respond, O Queen, to the desire I have to possess Eternal Love, the grace of God the Father, Salvation for my soul and for the lives of those for whom I plead.
Always give me the grace to follow Jesus, in virtues and holiness of life. Receive, O Most Holy Queen, my prayers and needs, raising my heart to Your Son, my Lord and Redeemer.
(Request the grace you want to achieve)
I consecrate to You my eyes so that they may be the lamp of my soul, my ears so that they may always be attentive to the calls of the Gospel, my mouth so that they may always proclaim that You are the light of my life.
I consecrate to You, O Incomparable Mother, my joy and my pain, my mind and my heart, my life and my death in the desire for endless eternity. I consecrate my entire being to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help, carrying my cross and renouncing all evil.
Amen!
Pray the I believe1 Our Father3 Hail Marys It is Glory to the Father.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us!
Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! For ever be praised.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Fifth day
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
(Pope John Paul II)
Virgin of Perpetual Help, Holy Mother of the Redeemer, help your people who long to rise again. Give everyone the joy of walking in conscious and active solidarity with the poorest, proclaiming in a new and courageous way the Gospel of your Son, the foundation and summit of all human coexistence that aspires to true, just and lasting peace. How the…