Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
Prayer
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, St. 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. (here make your 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.
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.
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.
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-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.
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.
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.
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.
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 miraculous 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.
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.
Because the Feast of St. Joseph falls during Holy Week, it will be celebrated on March 15th this year. If you begin the novena today, you will finish on Saturday the 15th--the day my parish has dubbed Irish-Italian day in order to cram a good bit of St. Patrick and St. Joseph celebrating into one day before beginning Holy Week. This is my favorite unfailing prayer to St. Joseph. It is perpetually on my sidebar and I find myself praying it pretty much every day, often several times a day. What a faithful Daddy good St. Joseph has been to my husband and me throughout our married life! 
