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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.
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