Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
  
Begin Novena
Daily
Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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, Saint 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.
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.
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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)
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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 - that 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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. 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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 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.
Recite: Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
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Bernadette died, worn out with physical
suffering, on April 16, 1879, at the age of thirty-six. Now her incorrupt body can be seen
as she lay in death in the side chapel of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at
Nevers, where she lived and died as Sister Marie Bernard. Thirty years after her death her
body was found in a perfect state of preservation, undoubtedly a token of love of the
Immaculate Virgin Mary. She was beatified in 1925, and on December 8, 1933, she was
canonized by Pope Pius XI.
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