Marian prayers
150th Jubilee Prayer for Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
150th Jubilee Prayer for Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
O Mother of Perpetual Help,
Icon of Love
Your sorrowful gaze
at our suffering and that of Jesus
entrusts us into the love of the Father
Help us to make you known even more
And to be missionaries
of the good, beautiful and joyful life of the Gospel
Open our hearts
to the cry of those without hope
until all come to believe.
Teach us
to ponder the Word in our heart
and to do what your Son asks us to do
Enable us to walk with you
with the great light of faith
to light up our path
Thus one day we will be able
to contemplate with you
the face of the Father
who with the Son and Holy Spirit
lives and reigns forever and ever.
AMEN
A 2nd Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke the most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary. Let Your name be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on You, for, in akk my needs, in all my temptations I shall never cease to call on You, ever repeating Your sacred name, or ever only think of you.
I thank God for having given You, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely pronouncing Your name; let my love for You prompt me ever to hail Thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.
Recite nine Hail Mary’s
A short prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
A short prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
(this prayer can be repeated as often as you feel the need)
O Mother of Perpetual Help, Sweetest Mary,
I ask you with your divine grace to watch over me,
give me the strength to take one day at a time.
Chaplet of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Chaplet of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may always invoke your most powerful name, for your name is help in life and salvation in death. Mary most pure, Mary most sweet, let your name henceforth be the breath of my life. Delay not, O lady, to come to my aid whenever I call upon you in my hour of need. O Mother of Perpetual Help, what comfort, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul at the very mention of your name. I thank the Lord for having given you to me and I will never cease to honour you for your goodness and eternal grace. Amen
Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Mary and Glorias.
Hymn of St Therese of Lisieux to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
Hymn of St Therese of Lisieux to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
[I]
Full well you know that from my tenderest years
Your image sweet has borne my heart away,
For tender pity in your gaze appears,
With you I found the golden light of day.
CHORUS
O Virgin Mary, when to heaven I go
Your loveliness forever shall I see;
But my Perpetual Succour here below
Is your sweet Image ever dear to me.
[II]
When fervour made me willing to obey
It seemed as if your picture on me smiled,
But if betimes, my will was led astray,
Your welling tears reproved your erring child.
[III]
In hearkening ever to my lowly prayer,
You showered on me the sweetness of your love,
The very thought of you is now a share
A foretaste of eternal bliss above.
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