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. (once)
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