Novena To Our Lady Of Perpetual Help DAY 5 Act Of Contrition My Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man, my Father and Redeemer, behold at Thy feet a poor sinner who has so grievously afflicted Thy loving Heart, O lovable Jesus! How could I have offended Thee and filled with bitterness that Heart that loves me so and that has spared no effort to attain my Joy? How great has been my Ingratitude! But, O my Savior, be consoled, be consoled, I say to Thee; now I find myself repentant, such grief I feel for the afflictions I have caused Thee, that I would like to die of pure sorrow and contrition. O my Jesus! Who could make me weep for sin as Thou hast wept for it in Thy mortal life! My soul is oppressed for having offended Thee. Eternal Father, in satisfaction for my offenses I offer Thee the affliction and the sorrow the Heart of Thy Divine Son has felt for them. And Thou, O loving Jesus! Give me such a horror for sin that from now on it may make me avoid even the most trifling of faults. Depart from my heart, earthly affections I do not want to love anything now but my most bountiful Redeemer O my Jesus, help me, strengthen me, and pardon me My Mother of Perpetual Help, intercede for me and obtain for me the pardon of my sins. PREPARATORY PRAYER To Be Said Every Day O Most Blessed Virgin Mary! Who to Inspire us with boundless confidence has been pleased to take the sweet name of Mother of Perpetual Help, I implore Thee to come to my aid always and everywhere, In my temptations, after my falls, in my difficulties, in all miseries of life and, above all, at the hour of my death. Give me, O loving Mother, the desire nay more, the habit always to have recourse to Thee; for I feel assured that if I am faithful in invoking Thee, Thou wilt be faithful in coming to my assistance. Obtain for me, then, this grace of grace, the grace to pray to Thee without ceasing, and with childlike trust, that by means of my constant plea, I may ensure Thy Perpetual Help and final perseverance. Bless me, O tender and solicitous Mother, pray for me now and at the hour of my death. Amen. MEDITATION Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Protects Her Devotees In All The Necessities And Afflictions Of Life Let us consider that the world is a place of trial a valley of tears and weeping.. Who is unaware of it? “Man “, says Job. “born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with Many works and miseries” His work is that of Calvary. Such is the condition of every mortal. That is why ‘the author of the “Imitation of Christ” says: “Man needs consolation”. And this consolation… where will our afflicted heart find it? Perhaps in our friends and neighbors? Ah, no! Usually they look with indifference upon” our tribulations; our tears do not move them; and if one of them. …is moved to compassion upon seeing our sorrow, often he does not know how to mitigate it in the least, because he Is impotent. Of whom can we ask help in poverty, consolation in afflictions, and counsel in doubts? Of whom but of He Who the Perpetual help of mortals. Look, afflicted soul see bow the Divine Infant clasps the hand of His tender mother. He has seen the Cross and the instruments of His passion that the angel present to him and he has become terrified, and His Heart has said”. “My sorrow is always before my eyes”. But where does he seek consolation? In His good Mother Who extends Her hand to Him to support and comfort Him in His suffering! Let us learn from the Heavenly Infant to have recourse to the compassionate Mother of Perpetual Help in our afflictions and trials. Perpetual are our miseries; but, oh consolation! Perpetual also is Her help. Poor soul! Do not be discouraged. Your Mother sees the many and varied calamities that grieve you. She see what torments your body and afflicts your soul. Are you poor? Neither the necessities of your family, nor the afflictions of your heart, nor the tears you shed for lack of means with which to procure food for them or to satisfy your creditors or to provide honestly for your children pass unnoticed by Her. Are you ill? She sees the pain that consumes you, the abhorrence that afflicts you, the, fear that oppresses you, the days you pass without relief, the nights you count without rest. Are you the target of another’s envy or anger? Are you calumniated? Do you find reason for affliction within your own family? This compassionate Mother witnesses your bitterness, the Injustices committed against you in tribunals, the harm your rivals cause you, the outrages and offenses you receive from your relatives. She counts your fears. This, with all the rest that afflicts you, She sees without withdrawing Her penetrating and benign glance from you for one moment. And She not only sees it, but It seems that She feels It more vividly than you yourself. A mother is of Marcy; and that is why, just as She sees our miseries with the eyes of a mother, with the heart .of a ‘mother She sympathizes with them. In. such a way that, Just as at the foot of the “Cross, the’ wounds of ‘the most sacred. Body of Jesus were reflected the loving. Heart of Mary, thus all the Injuries of our wounded heart are reproduced in that of our Heavenly Mother. Finally, this tender Mother not only sees our miseries and our, heart open and is moved by our misfortunes, but also She has Her hands extended in a gesture of helping us with all haste. And She exercises this pious office with us continually. Is She doing anything but granting us helps in our necessities? Ah! no matter how little we dedicate our thoughts to the many laborious evils to which we are subject in life, we will come to see that in everything She defend’ us, relieves us, protects’ us. At the wedding feast of Cana, scarcely was She aware of the lack of wine, of ‘the shame of the bridegroom and of the disturbance of the guests, when moved to compassion, She presented that necessity to Her Son, begging sweetly to apply- the opportune remedy; thus, in the same way, now that She is seated gloriously at the right hand of Her Son in Heaven, She continually discloses to Him all our necessities. She begs Him without ceasing either to alleviate our miseries or to provide powerful help to suffer them with humble resignation, as this or that may redound to His greater glory and our spiritual good. Well then if such are the benign effects that experience every day from the loving help of Mary, what must be our gratitude toward a Mother so kind, what must be our affection for a Mother so, tender, what must be our confidence In a Mother Who loves us so and concerns Herself so much with us? She has Her eyes always fixed on our miseries, with Her heart always disposed to be compassionate and with Her hands always ‘open “in an attitude of remedying them. Lets us have continuous and devout recourse then, to ‘this most ‘kind Mother, disclosing to Her with filial confidence all our needs, and let us be assured that through Her we will have our perpetual relief, encouragement and consolation. Amen. Meditate and ask.. Recite The Joys MEDITATION Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Protects Her Devotees In All The Necessities And Afflictions Of Life Let us consider that the world is a place of trial a valley of tears and weeping.. Who is unaware of it? “Man “, says Job. “born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with Many works and miseries” His work is that of Calvary. Such is the condition of every mortal. That is why ‘the author of the “Imitation of Christ” says: “Man needs consolation”. And this consolation… where will our afflicted heart find it? Perhaps in our friends and neighbors? Ah, no! Usually they look with indifference upon” our tribulations; our tears do not move them; and if one of them. …is moved to compassion upon seeing our sorrow, often he does not know how to mitigate it in the least, because he Is impotent. Of whom can we ask help in poverty, consolation in afflictions, and counsel in doubts? Of whom but of He Who the Perpetual help of mortals. Look, afflicted soul see bow the Divine Infant clasps the hand of His tender mother. He has seen the Cross and the instruments of His passion that the angel present to him and he has become terrified, and His Heart has said”. “My sorrow is always before my eyes”. But where does he seek consolation? In His good Mother Who extends Her hand to Him to support and comfort Him in His suffering! Let us learn from the Heavenly Infant to have recourse to the compassionate Mother of Perpetual Help in our afflictions and trials. Perpetual are our miseries; but, oh consolation! Perpetual also is Her help. Poor soul! Do not be discouraged. Your Mother sees the many and varied calamities that grieve you. She see what torments your body and afflicts your soul. Are you poor? Neither the necessities of your family, nor the afflictions of your heart, nor the tears you shed for lack of means with which to procure food for them or to satisfy your creditors or to provide honestly for your children pass unnoticed by Her. Are you ill? She sees the pain that consumes you, the abhorrence that afflicts you, the, fear that oppresses you, the days you pass without relief, the nights you count without rest. Are you the target of another’s envy or anger? Are you calumniated? Do you find reason for affliction within your own family? This compassionate Mother witnesses your bitterness, the Injustices committed against you in tribunals, the harm your rivals cause you, the outrages and offenses you receive from your relatives. She counts your fears. This, with all the rest that afflicts you, She sees without withdrawing Her penetrating and benign glance from you for one moment. And She not only sees it, but It seems that She feels It more vividly than you yourself. A mother is of Marcy; and that is why, just as She sees our miseries with the eyes of a mother, with the heart .of a ‘mother She sympathizes with them. In. such a way that, Just as at the foot of the “Cross, the’ wounds of ‘the most sacred. Body of Jesus were reflected the loving. Heart of Mary, thus all the Injuries of our wounded heart are reproduced in that of our Heavenly Mother. Finally, this tender Mother not only sees our miseries and our, heart open and is moved by our misfortunes, but also She has Her hands extended in a gesture of helping us with all haste. And She exercises this pious office with us continually. Is She doing anything but granting us helps in our necessities? Ah! no matter how little we dedicate our thoughts to the many laborious evils to which we are subject in life, we will come to see that in everything She defend’ us, relieves us, protects’ us. At the wedding feast of Cana, scarcely was She aware of the lack of wine, of ‘the shame of the bridegroom and of the disturbance of the guests, when moved to compassion, She presented that necessity to Her Son, begging sweetly to apply- the opportune remedy; thus, in the same way, now that She is seated gloriously at the right hand of Her Son in Heaven, She continually discloses to Him all our necessities. She begs Him without ceasing either to alleviate our miseries or to provide powerful help to suffer them with humble resignation, as this or that may redound to His greater glory and our spiritual good. Well then if such are the benign effects that experience every day from the loving help of Mary, what must be our gratitude toward a Mother so kind, what must be our affection for a Mother so, tender, what must be our confidence In a Mother Who loves us so and concerns Herself so much with us? She has Her eyes always fixed on our miseries, with Her heart always disposed to be compassionate and with Her hands always ‘open “in an attitude of remedying them. Lets us have continuous and devout recourse then, to ‘this most ‘kind Mother, disclosing to Her with filial confidence all our needs, and let us be assured that through Her we will have our perpetual relief, encouragement and consolation. Amen. Meditate and ask.. Recite The Joys JOYS Thou art Perpetual Help benign: Come, therefore, I implore Thee; Come hasten to assist me, O Mother sweet and kind! Hear, 0 Virgin pure, Our fervent prayers of love That fly to Thee above On Thine exalted Throne. Come hasten to assist me, O Mother sweet and kind! Stained by guilt and sin I bow my head and cry And at Thy feet I sig For clemency and love. Come hasten… Free the careless’ soul From all its tepid ways, And set the soul ablaze With fervor in devotion. Come hasten…. Wretched in this vale Of pain and tribulation, For heavenly consolation I humbly beg of Thee. Come hasten…. If my virtue wanes When tempests howl and roar, My energies restore, beloved Morning Star, Come hasten…. To Thy faithful child Encouragement provide And toward virtue guide His weak, unsteady steps. Coma hasten… Free my fickle heart From all its lassitude, And grant it fortitude To lead a sinless life. Come hasten In the final clash With death in all Its fright, How great my soul’s delight If then I can exclaim: come hasten In Purgatory’s fire, Dear Mother, please be sweet; Great Lady, I entreat, Alleviate my pains. Come hasten Grant me, Mother dear, As fond farewell to Thee, To sing eternally With love and praise to Thee Come hasten to assist me, O Mother Sweet and kind! EJACULATORY PRAYER In all my difficulties and, miseries, come to my aid, O Mother most kind! EXERCISE When some labor is presented say: O Mother of Perpetual Help! Take this chalice from me or give me virtue and fortitude to beat it for the love of my God. PRAYER 0 Mother of Perpetual Help! In the same manner as a poor, ragged and wounded one presents himself to a great Queen I present myself to Thee, Who art the Queen of Heaven and earth. From the exalted throne where Thou art seated, I beg Thee, do not disdain to turn Thy merciful. eyes toward this unhappy sinner for that is why God has enriched Thee so much, to help the poor, and He has established Thee, Queen of Mercy, so Thou mayest alleviate the miserable. Behold me, then, and have mercy on me. I am not unaware that Thy merciful Heart finds consolation in aiding the miserable. Today, then, console Thy pious Heart and console me too, since Thou hast occasion to assist me. See O tender Mother, the afflictions of my heart; see the needs of my family. There are so many causes for affliction in my own home’ and so much persecutions on the part of my neighbors; Illness torments my body and Interior pains devour my soul. In these afflictions, to whom must I have recourse, O my lady and Mother, but to Thee, Who art Mother of Perpetual help? Allow me, then, to say with St. Bernard. “Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to Thy protection implored thy help. Or sought Thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence I fly unto Thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother! To Thee I come, before Thee I kneel, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate despise not my petitions, but, in Thy mercy, bear and answer me. Amen. EXAMPLE At the end of the year 1883, while the freethinkers of the United States were celebrating their annual reunion In Rochester and in their impious discourses were denying the existence of God and of His work, behold suddenly a marvelous event occurred that occupied the American press; it is the following. In the city of Boston, the directress of a college had a horrible cancer in her breast that had broken out in three places. The most distinguished doctors of Boston had examined the disease and judged it Incurable, unless there was a happy outcome to surgical operation. The sick woman, although with repugnance, had to consent to it; but first she began a novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Eight days had passed without attaining the desired result and the operation was to be performed on the following day several distinguished professors from the university, among them its heads were to cooperate In this painful undertaking. They put the sick woman to sleep with a soporific drink and placed her on the operating table. The head surgeon was somewhat distant, and the surgeon assigned to begin that risky task, asked him with which of the three wounds he was to start. “What the largest”, he was answered; but behold; the surgeon could not find any cancer. Very courageously the head surgeon approached the sick woman, and imagine his surprise when neither could he find any sign of the terrible disease; nevertheless, he affirmed solemnly to the doctor who were present that previous evening and that very same morning himself had seen three horrible cancers in the breast of the sick woman. He added that their disappearance was a mystery to him. They released the sick woman and awakened her. Not feeling any pain she asked why they had released her. They assured her that the operation was not necessary Having convinced herself of that fact, she began to give thanks to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, declaring to the incredulous but stunned, doctors, that this was the work of the good Mother, in Whose honor a novena was coming to an end on that very same day. May the Virgin of perpetual Help be loved, praised, invoked and eternally blessed! May She be my hope, my love, my mother my refuge and my life. Amen.
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