Novenas

Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes

In 1858 the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times to the fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous at the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, France, identifying herself as "the Immaculate Conception.

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Pray each day for nine days: O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Health of the Sick, Refuge of Sinners, Comfortress of the Afflicted, thou knowest my wants, my troubles, my sufferings. Deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes thou wast pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary whence thou dost dispense thy favors, and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal. I come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore thy maternal intercession. Obtain, O loving Mother, the grant of my requests (state your intention). Through gratitude for thy favors, I will endeavor to imitate thy virtues, that I may one day share thy glory. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. St. Bernadette, pray for us.

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" The spring that opened there has been associated with thousands of reported cures, seventy of which the Church has formally declared miraculous. The novena is prayed before the feast on February 11, which is also the World Day of the Sick, and by all who are ill or caring for the ill.

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