FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Feast Day: Mary, Image and Mother of the Church

Mother of the Redeemer,
with great joy we call you blessed.

In order to carry out His plan of salvation,
God the Father chose you before the creation of the world.
You believed in His love and obeyed His word.

The Son of God desired you for His Mother
when He became man to save the human race.
You received Him with ready obedience and undivided heart.

The Holy Spirit loved you as His mystical spouse
and filled you with singular gifts.
You allowed yourself to be led
by His hidden powerful action.

On this third Christian Millennium,
we entrust to you the Church
which acknowledges you and invokes you as Mother.

To you, Mother of human family and of the nations,
we confidently entrust the whole humanity,
with its hopes and fears.
Do not let it lack the light of true wisdom.
Guide its steps in the ways of peace.
Enable all to meet Christ,
the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

(Mention your intentions)

Sustain us, O Virgin Mary, on our journey of faith
and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Mother of God
and our Mother, Mary! Amen.

(Adapted from the prayer for Pope John Paul II)

Day 9: Mary, Health of the Sick

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 9: Mary, Health of the Sick

Mary Immaculate, you have given yourself to us as our Lady, Health of those in need of healing. You have asked us to pray with confidence, and we will receive great graces. We know your compassion, because you saw your Son suffer and die for us. In your union with his suffering you became the Mother of us all. Mary, our Mother, teach us to understand our sufferings as you do and to endure it in union with the suffering of Jesus. In your motherly love, calm our fears and increase our trust in God's loving care. According to God's plan, obtain for us the healing we need. Intercede with your Son that we may have the strength we need to work for God's glory and the salvation of the world. Amen.

(Mention your intentions)

Mary, Health of the Sick, pray for me.

Day 8: Mary, Mother of Divine Providence

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 8: Mary, Mother of Divine Providence

Mother of Divine Providence, teach us to see God's loving will in everything. Teach us to trust, as you did, that the promises made to us will be fulfilled. Above all, Dear Mother, teach us never to resist any grace that your Son sends us, no matter how costly our cooperation with His love may be.

(Mention your intentions)

O Mary, give us Jesus! Grant that we may follow him and love him! He is the hope of the Church, and of all humanity! He lives with us, in our midst, in his Church! With you, O Blessed Mother of we say: "Come, Lord Jesus" (Rev 22:20). May the hope of glory which he has poured into our hearts bear fruits of justice and peace!

Amen.

Day 7: Mary, Mother of Consolation

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 7: Mary, Mother of Consolation

O Immaculate Mary, Dear Mother of Consolation, we take refuge in your most lovable Heart with all the trust of which we are capable. You shall be the dearest object of our love and our veneration. From you, the dispenser of heavenly treasures, we shall always seek peace in our troubles, light in our doubts, defense in our dangers, help in our needs. Be therefore, our refuge, our strength, our consolation, O Mary, our Mother. At the hour of our death, graciously receive the last beats of our hearts, and obtain for us a place in heaven, where as one, all hearts shall praise forever the adorable Heart of Jesus, with your most lovable Heart.

(Mention your intentions)

O Mary, our Mother, Consolation of the Afflicted, pray for us, who have recourse to you.

Amen.

Day 6: Mary, Help of Christians

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 6: Mary, Help of Christians

Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin, Help of Christians, we place ourselves under your motherly protection. Throughout the Church's history you have helped Christians in times of trial, temptation and danger. Time and time again, you have proven to be the Refuge of Sinners, the Hope of the Hopeless, the Consoler of the Afflicted, and the Comforter of the Dying. We promise to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, your Son, to proclaim His Good News of God's love for all people, and to work for peace and justice in our world. With faith in your intercession, we pray for the Church, for our family and friends, for the poor and abandoned, and all the dying. Grant, O Mary, Help of Christians, the graces in which we stand in need.

(Mention your intentions)

May we serve Jesus with fidelity and love until death. Help us and out loved ones to attain the boundless joy of being forever with our Father in heaven.

Amen.

Day 5: Mary, Queen and Mother of Mercy

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 5: Mary, Queen and Mother of Mercy

Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary, my Mother, we, sinners, have recourse to you today, the Mother of my Lord.

We venerate you, O great Queen, and thank you for all the graces you have obtained for us, especially for having delivered us from hell, which we have so often deserved.

We love you, O Queen of Mercy, and for your love, we commit ourselves to serve you forever, and tend all our efforts to make you loved by others too. We place all our hopes and all our salvation in you.

Accept us as your servant, and receive us under your protection, O Mother of Mercies. And since you are so powerful over God, deliver us from all temptations or obtain for me the strength to conquer them until death.

(Mention your intentions)

O Mother, by the love that you have for God, we pray that you will always assist us, but most of all at the last moment of our lives. Do not abandon us until you see us safe in heaven, occupied to bless you and to sing your mercies for all eternity. This is our hope.

Amen.

Day 4: Mary, Mother of Unity

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 4: Mary, Mother of Unity

Spouse of the Holy Spirit and Seat of Wisdom, help us in the great endeavor that we are carrying out to meet on a more and more mature way our brothers and sisters in the faith, with whom so many things unite us, although there is still something dividing us. Through all the means of knowledge, of mutual respect, of love, shared collaboration in various fields, may we be able to rediscover gradually the divine plan for the unity in which we should enter. Mother of unity, teach us constantly the ways that lead to unity.

Allow us in the future to go out to meet human beings and all the peoples that are seeking God and wishing to serve him on the way of different religions. Help us all to proclaim Christ.

(Mention your intentions)

Mother of Good Counsel, show us always how we are to serve the individual and humanity in every nation, how we are to lead them along the ways of salvation. How we are to protect justice and peace in a world continually threatened on various sides. Let us entrust to you all the difficult problems of the societies, systems, and states–problems that cannot be solved with hatred, war and self-destruction but only by peace, justice, and respect for the rights of people and nations.

Amen.

Day 3: Mary, Cause of our Joy

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 3: Mary, Cause of our Joy

O Mary, you spirit finds joy in God your Savior. Your entire being found joy in the Lord. You spread that joy to others, even the pre-born baby John, who leapt "for joy" at the sound of your tender voice as you carried Jesus into the home in you womb. You are also present in the upper room at Pentecost and surely exulted with joy as your Spouse, the Holy Spirit, filled the apostles, who then brought many people into the Church.

(Mention your intentions)

We rejoice with you, O Mother of God, and may we bring more people in rejoicing in the Lord.

Amen.

Day 2: Mary, Fountain of Salvation

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 2: Mary, Fountain of Salvation

O Mary, Fountain of Salvation, through your obedience, the mystery of the Incarnation became a reality and opened for us the doors of salvation. You were overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and your bore Jesus, Your Son, the Word and the Fountain of Living Water from which all may satisfy their thirst to be one with you in a communion of love. You were present at the foot of the Cross where Jesus shed sacramental graces when a lance was pierced on his side and flowed blood and water.

(Mention your intentions)

O Mary, lead us to Jesus that we may be filled with His presence.

Amen.

Day 1: Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of all grace.

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

Novena: October 2-10, 2009

Day 1: Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of all grace.

O Mary, Most Holy and Immaculate Mother of God, of Jesus, our Victim-High Priest, True Prophet, and Sovereign King, we come to you as the our Mother and Mediatrix of All Grace, for that is truly what you are. O Fountain of all Grace! O Fairest of Roses! Most Pure Spring! Unsullied Channel of all of God's Grace! Receive us, Most Holy Mother! Present us and our every need to the Most Holy Trinity! That having been made pure and holy in His Sight through your hands, they may return to me, through you, as graces and blessing.

(Mention your intentions)

We give and consecrate ourselves to you, Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of All Grace, that Jesus, Our One True Mediator, Who is the King of All Nations, may Reign in every heart.

Amen.