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 Leader: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and
they shall be created.
People: And you shall renew the face of the earth.
Leader:
Let us pray. O God, who instructed the hearts of the faithful by the
light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to savor what
is right, and always to rejoice in his consolation. Through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
People: Amen.
Leader: O Mary, conceived without sin,
People: Pray for us who have recourse to you.
PRAYERS
Leader and People:
Lord Jesus Christ, who has glorified your mother, the Blessed Virgin
Mary, immaculate from the first moment of her conception, grant that
all who devoutly implore her protection on earth may eternally enjoy
your presence in heaven. Lord Jesus Christ, who for the accomplishment
of your greatest works have chosen the weak things of the world, that
no flesh may glory in your sight, and who for a better and more widely
diffused belief in the Immaculate Conception of your Mother, have wished
that the Miraculous Medal be manifested to Saint Catherine Laboure,
grant, we ask you that filled with like humility, we may glorify this
mystery by word and work. Amen.
NOVENA PRAYER
Leader and People: Immaculate Virgin Mary, mother of our
Lord Jesus and our mother, we have confidence in your powerful and never-failing
intercession, manifested often through the Miraculous Medal. We your
loving and trustful children, ask you to obtain for us the graces and
favors we ask during this novena if they will be for the glory of God
and the salvation of souls. (Here privately form your petitions.)
You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries
of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us then a deep hatred of
sin and that purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so that
our every thought, word, and deed may tend to his greater glory.
Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover
by penance what we have lost by sin and at length attain to that blessed
abode where you are the queen of angels and of men. Amen.
PRAYER TO OUR LADY
OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
Leader and People: Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate,
we unite ourselves to you under your title of Our Lady of the Miraculous
Medal. May this medal be for each one of us a sure sign of your motherly
affection for us and a constant reminder of our filial duties towards
you. While wearing it, may we be blessed by your loving protection and
preserved in the grace of your Son. Most powerful Virgin, Mother of
our Savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives so that like
you we may live and act according to the teaching and example of your
Son. Obtain for us, your children, the grace of a happy death so that
in union with you we may enjoy the happiness of heaven forever. Amen.
Leader: O Mary, conceived without sin,
People: Pray for us who have recourse to you.
CLOSING PRAYER
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us: O Mary conceived without
sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
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