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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) Mary and Bernadette 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. Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals

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. Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm#ixzz1N5u1isYJ

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. Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm#ixzz1N5tzHhhQ

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. Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm#ixzz1N5tw9QS2

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

Traditions and history record the apparitions of mother Mary in India in a remote village. In south India, in a coastal plain, situated a humble village named Vellankanni. Mother Mary appeared many times in this shrine to the poor Hindu farmers. Among those apparitions there are two vivid apparitions captured in the vellankanni church history. I would like to place them here to appreciate the everlasting apostolic mission of Blessed Virgin Mary. In penning few words about this shrine, I reflect upon many blessings we received through the intercession of Mother through this shrine. When we were in India, we used to visit this shrine every summer for 3 - 5days some years even 1 week. The fascinating truth about this shrine is that it attracts all the people who belong to various religions who are not Christians, such as Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc............ Majority of the people who visit here come with the gratitude heart having received some intended favors from Mother M

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. Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm#ixzz1McWIgD6u

Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, we turn to you, O Virgins of virgins, our Mother. To you we come, before you we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, do not despise our petitions, but in your mercy hear us and answer us. Amen. THE ANGELUS V- The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. R- And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. (Hail Mary....) V- Behold the handmaid of the Lord. R- Be it done unto me according to thy word. (Hail Mary....) V- And the Word was made Flesh. R- And dwelt among us. (Hail Mary....) V- Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. R- That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ The world's greatest love story ever told and will be told for ever in the future, which stood as a testament between heaven and earth that marked the human history is the incarnation of Jesus Christ,

Resurrection was announced to the Apostles through the women who went to the tomb in the morning. We do not find Mother of God Blessed virgin Mary among them in the scripture. Next, in the receipt of the news the Apostles ran to the tomb to verify the news, but we do not find mother of God among them also. Where was she? What happened to her? Why she was not among all those people, who are recorded in the bible? Like wise we may have multiple questions in our mind. The logical answer is that the Mother of God knew Jesus resurrection, so she did not have the necessity to verify. She believed her Son with out requesting for any evidences. If we reflect upon the first miracle of Jesus Christ, we can understand that Mother of God knew that her Son could help that marriage. So she approached him for the lack of wine in the wedding feast. When Jesus said that His time has not come, she turned to the Apostles and said do what ever he tells you to Do. She did not keep quiet when Jesus said it

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen. Litany of the Blessed Virgin Lord, have mercy on us Christ, have mercy on us Lord, have mercy on us Christ, hear us Christ, graciously hear us God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us God the Holy Spirit, ... Holy Trinity, one God, ... Holy Mary, pray for us Holy Mother of God, pray for us Holy Virgin of virgins, ... Mother of Christ, ... Mother of Divine Grace, ... Mother most pure, ... Mother most chaste, ... Mother inviolate, ... Mother undefiled, ... Mother most amiable, ... Mother most admira

Prayer to Saint Joseph to Obtain a Special Favor O Blessed St. Joseph, tender-hearted father, faithful guardian of Jesus, chaste spouse of the Mother of God, I pray and beseech you, to offer to God the Father, His divine Son, bathed in blood on the Cross for sinners, and through the thrice holy Name of Jesus obtain for us of the eternal Father the favor we implore. Appease the Divine anger so justly inflamed by our crimes; beg of Jesus mercy for your children. Amid the splendors of eternity, forget not the sorrows of those who suffer, those who pray, those who weep; stay the almighty arm, that by your prayers and those of your most holy Spouse the Heart of Jesus may be moved to pity and to pardon. Amen. St. Joseph pray for us The Litany of Saint Joseph Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, * God the Son, Redeemer of the world, * God the Holy Spirit, * Holy Trinity, One God, * Holy

Dear heavenly Father, We thank you for the gift of Pope John Paul II to the church and to the world. We thank you for all the gifts and blessings you showered upon this world through your apostle Pope John Paul II. We recall and remember his role model in courage, love for unity, deliberations for peace, life of simplicity, long sufferings,and the exposition of gospel through his words and deeds. We witnessed your Son's love, protection, and guidance through your beloved apostle Pope John Paul II. We experienced your presence in his charisma of universal fatherhood, as he extended his hands wide to the world in inter - religious and inter - leaders dialogues of peace. We witnessed your Holy Spirit's presence of gifts and fruits in his life. Father we come before you with a thankful heart for elevating our beloved Pope John Paul II in beatification. In Jesus Name we pray Amen. Crossing The Threshold of Hope: Book High lights: Chapter 2 & 3: Praying How and why? How does the