Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Opening Prayer

Mother of Perpetual Help, with the greatest confidence I come before your holy icon to be inspired by your example. I think of you at the Annunciation, when you humbly accepted God's will in your life, and I hear you say, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord."

Prayer of Petition

Behold me at your feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help. I am a poor sinner who has recourse to you and puts trust in you. I beg you, by the bitter Passion and Death of your Son, look upon me with eyes of mercy and obtain for me from your Divine Son the grace I so earnestly implore:

[State your intention here]

Act of Consecration

I know, dearest Mother, that the Divine Son, in view of His tender love for you, can refuse you nothing. I know that your joy is to help the wretched. I know that if you obtain this grace for me, you will increase the glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and of your Divine Son.

Then come to my help, dear Mother, and obtain for me this grace. Let me praise the mercy and generosity of your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, who in His love has given you to us as our Mother and as our Help.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your most powerful name, which is the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on you. In temptations, in trials, in needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name: Mary, Mary.

Closing Prayer

O Mother of Perpetual Help, you are the dispenser of all the goods which God grants to us miserable sinners. For this reason He has made you so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful, that you may help us in our misery. You are the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to you. Come then to my help, dearest Mother, for I recommend myself to you. In your hands I place my eternal salvation, and to you do I entrust my soul. Count me among your most devoted servants; take me under your protection, and it is enough for me. For, if you protect me, dear Mother, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because you will obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because you are more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my Judge, because by one prayer from you He will be appeased. But one thing I fear: that in the hour of temptation, I may through negligence fail to have recourse to you and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me, then, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace always to have recourse to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help. Amen.

Conclude With

Three Hail Marys