Marian Prayers
These are the traditional prayers associated with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Some are among the oldest surviving Christian prayers of any kind.
Each includes its history, so you can see where it came from and how it has been used.
54 prayers
- Act of Consecration on Receiving the Brown Scapular
This act of consecration is prayed at the moment of enrollment in the Brown Scapular, when a priest blesses and imposes the cloth for the…
- Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)
This is the act of consecration composed by St. Louis de Montfort and printed at the end of his True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.…
- Act of Consecration to Mary
The consecration associated with St. Louis de Montfort's “True Devotion to Mary” (early eighteenth century). Its theology is explicitly…
- Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
This act of reparation is the prayer most commonly used with the Five First Saturdays devotion and on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of…
- Akathist Hymn: Rejoice, Unwedded Bride
The opening kontakion and first stanza of the great Akathist Hymn, a masterpiece of Byzantine poetry composed by the sixth or seventh…
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
One of the four seasonal Marian antiphons of the Western Church, traditionally sung from Advent through the Presentation of the Lord.…
- August Queen of the Heavens
A nineteenth-century French prayer, widely circulated with ecclesiastical approval and included in Fr. Ripperger's collection among the…
- Ave Maria (The Hail Mary in Latin)
The first half of the Ave Maria is scripture: the greeting of the angel Gabriel and of Elizabeth in Luke 1. The second half, the petition,…
- Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea)
A Latin Marian hymn known from at least the ninth century and sung at Vespers on Marian feasts. The title “Star of the Sea” became one of…
- Ave Regina Caelorum
The Marian antiphon traditionally sung from the Presentation of the Lord until Holy Week. Its medieval text joins Old Testament images —…
- Blessing of a Rosary
A blessing for rosary beads and for those who pray the mysteries with them.
- Carmelite Invocation
A short binding invocation preserved in the Carmelite tradition and gathered among the lay deliverance prayers by Fr. Chad Ripperger. It…
- Consecration of One's Exterior Goods to the Blessed Virgin Mary
An act of Marian consecration applied specifically to material possessions, a practice recommended in deliverance ministry because…
- Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Acts of consecration to Mary's Immaculate Heart grew from nineteenth-century devotion and received new worldwide prominence after Fátima.…
- Flower of Carmel (Flos Carmeli)
Composed by St. Simon Stock, English Prior General of the Carmelite Order, around 1251, on the occasion of the vision in which Our Lady…
- Hail, Holy Queen (Salve Regina)
The Salve Regina is an eleventh-century Latin antiphon, often attributed to Hermann of Reichenau, a monk born severely disabled who spent…
- Hail, White Lily of the Trinity (St. Gertrude the Great)
From St. Gertrude the Great of Helfta (thirteenth century), a Benedictine mystic. Her prayers are dense with Marian and Eucharistic imagery…
- How to Pray the Rosary
The Rosary grew out of the medieval practice of praying 150 Hail Marys in place of the 150 Psalms, and took its familiar shape among the…
- Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Litany of Loreto)
Named for the Marian shrine at Loreto, Italy, this litany took its familiar form in the sixteenth century and was approved for universal…
- Mary's Fiat: Be It Unto Me According to Thy Word
The shortest and most consequential prayer of consent in scripture. Read at the Annunciation and prayed daily at the Angelus, it is the…
- Novena of the Miraculous Medal
On 27 November 1830 St. Catherine Labouré, a novice of the Daughters of Charity in the rue du Bac in Paris, reported a vision of the Virgin…
- 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,…
- Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Pope Pius IX entrusted the ancient Byzantine icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Redemptorists in 1866 with the instruction to “make…
- Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Prayed in the nine days before December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, defined as dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854. The…
- Prayer After the Rosary
The traditional concluding collect of the Rosary. It states the discipline's purpose with unusual precision: meditation should lead to…
- Prayer Against Every Evil
One of the most widely circulated deliverance prayers in the Catholic world, popularized by Fr. Gabriele Amorth, for many years the chief…
- Prayer of St. Aloysius Gonzaga for Purity
St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591) renounced a noble inheritance to enter the Society of Jesus and died at twenty-three caring for plague…
- Prayer to Mary, Help of Christians (St. John Bosco)
St. John Bosco (1815-1888), who spent his life among the poor boys of Turin, made Mary Help of Christians the patroness of his Salesian…
- Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
A widely used prayer associated with St. John Paul II's entrustment of the Americas to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The devotion began with the…
- Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
In 1858 the Virgin appeared eighteen times to fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous at the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, France,…
- Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel takes her title from the mountain range in northern Israel where the prophet Elijah confronted the prophets of…
- Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Devotion to the Byzantine icon known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help spread worldwide after Pope Pius IX entrusted it to the Redemptorists in…
- Prayer to Our Lady, Queen of Virgins (for Purity)
The titles "Queen of Virgins" and "Mother of Fair Love" come from the Litany of Loreto and the wisdom literature of Scripture, and both…
- Prayer to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots
The devotion comes from a Baroque painting, Mary Untier of Knots, made around 1700 by Johann Georg Schmidtner for the church of St. Peter…
- Prayers After Low Mass (Leonine Prayers)
In 1884 Pope Leo XIII ordered that a set of prayers be recited after every Low Mass throughout the Latin Church, adding the Prayer to St.…
- Regina Caeli (Queen of Heaven)
The Regina Caeli is one of the four seasonal Marian antiphons, dating to at least the twelfth century, and legend holds that Pope St.…
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa
A 13th-century Latin sequence traditionally attributed to Jacopone da Todi, contemplating the sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the foot…
- Stella Caeli Extirpavit
A medieval Franciscan antiphon traditionally prayed during epidemics and associated with the Poor Clares of Coimbra during the plague of…
- Sub Tuum Praesidium (Beneath Thy Protection)
The oldest known prayer addressed to Mary as Theotokos, preserved on a third-century Egyptian papyrus. Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and…
- The Angelus
The Angelus takes its name from its first Latin word and developed between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries out of the monastic custom…
- The Brown Scapular Devotion (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) — Daily Practice
The Brown Scapular is the habit of the Carmelite Order given in miniature to the laity. Carmelite tradition holds that on 16 July 1251 the…
- The Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception
A chaplet honoring the Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that Mary was preserved free from original sin from the first moment of her…
- The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary
A devotion of the Servite Order dating to the thirteenth century, formalized as a chaplet by the fifteenth. It is prayed especially during…
- The Daily Rosary — Devotional Practice
The Rosary as a daily rule of life, rather than a single prayer, is one of the oldest lay devotions in the Western Church. It grew from the…
- The Fatima Prayer
According to the memoirs of Sister Lúcia, the Virgin Mary taught this prayer to the shepherd children at Fátima on July 13, 1917. It is now…
- The Five First Saturdays Devotion to the Immaculate Heart — Practice
The Five First Saturdays devotion belongs to the Fatima apparitions. On 13 July 1917 the children at Fatima were told that God wished to…
- The Green Scapular Devotion (For Conversion) — Daily Practice
The Green Scapular was given, according to the account of the Daughters of Charity, to Sister Justine Bisqueyburu at Blangy, France, in…
- The Green Scapular Prayer
This is the only prayer required by the Green Scapular devotion, given at Blangy in 1840 with the scapular itself. Its brevity is…
- The Hail Mary
The first half of this prayer is drawn straight from Scripture: the greeting of the angel Gabriel at the Annunciation (Luke 1:28) and…
- The Magnificat (Mary's Song of Praise)
The Magnificat is Mary's song of praise spoken at the Visitation, when she greeted her cousin Elizabeth (Luke 1:46-55). It echoes the song…
- The Memorare
Long associated with St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the Memorare was popularized in the 17th century by Fr. Claude Bernard, who credited it with…
- The Scriptural Rosary — A Guide to Praying with the Word
The Scriptural Rosary is the practice of reading a short verse of Scripture before each Hail Mary, so that the whole Gospel narrative of a…
- Three Hail Marys Devotion
A short morning and evening devotion promoted by St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn in the thirteenth century and later by St. Alphonsus Liguori.…
- Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary (33-Day Preparation) — Practice
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) was a French missionary priest whose "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary" set out…