30 days Novena Prayer to our Lady for Lent and for Fridays

This is a prayer in honour of Our Lady to be said for 30 days. By its recital we hope, with her intercession, to be granted the request asked. It is recommended as a prayer in Lent and every Friday. 

Marian Prayer for Lent 

O glorious and blessed Mary, Mother of mercy and hope, Comforter of the despondent, through the sorrow you felt when your only Son Jesus Christ Our Lord suffered humiliation and death on the Cross and through your Son’s love for you, take pity on me, have compassion on all my worries and cares and help and comfort me in all my sickness and suffering. 

You are the Mother of mercy, Refuge of the needy and orphaned, of the desolate and the afflicted. Look with pity on me and hear my prayer.

Because of my sins my spirit is overburdened, where can I find comfort other than from your maternal protection? 

Listen with pity and compassion, I implore you, to my humble request. I ask it through the infinite mercy of your Son who humbled Himself to assume our nature and was born into this world. 

I ask it through His Agony in the garden when He prayed to His Father, that, if possible, the bitter chalice of His forthcoming Passion could be removed. 

I ask it through His suffering as He was bound and scourged and stripped of His garments. 

I ask it through His patience bearing the jeers, insults, false accusations and unjust sentence by which He was condemned to death. 

I ask it through His tears and resignation, His sadness and grief.

I ask it through His bleeding head crowned with thorns, through the anguish of being nailed to the Cross, through His intense thirst and bitter potion offered of vinegar and oil.

I ask it through His commendation of His spirit to the Father and through His Blood mixed with Water from His side.

I ask it through His immaculate life, cruel Passion and shameful death on the Cross. 

I ask it through His glorious victory over death when He rose again on the third day and through His appearance over forty days and the joy it must have given you, His Blessed Mother.

I ask it by the grace of the Holy Spirit present in tongues of fire which inspired the Apostles to preach the Gospel to the world. 

I ask it through the appearance of Your Son at the Last Day when He shall judge the living and the dead.

I ask it through His compassion for you and your indescribable joy at your Assumption into Heaven. 

O Blessed Mother Mary comfort me in my trouble (mention your request), implore your Son, who loves you, intercede for me. 

Obtain for me from your Son, Our Lord, a lively faith, hope and charity, true contrition, contempt of the world and the resignation to accept the trials of this life.

Obtain for me the gift of receiving the Last Sacraments at my death and live everlasting for all my relatives and those who are close, living and dead.

Amen.

Prayer to Saint Philomena

“Whatever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.”

~ Pope Gregory XVI ~

Novena Prayer to St. Philomena

(9 successive days)

O faithful virgin and glorious martyr, St Philomena, 

who works so many miracles 

on behalf of the poor and sorrowful, 

have pity on me. 

Thou knowest the multitude and diversity of my needs. 

Behold me at thy feet, 

full of misery, but full of hope. 

I entreat thy charity o great Saint. 

Graciously hear me and obtain from God 

a favourable answer to the request 

which I now humbly lay before you 

(here specify your petition). 

I am firmly convinced that through thy merits, 

through the scorn, the sufferings 

and the death thou didst endure, 

united to the merits 

of the Passion and Death of Jesus thy Spouse, 

I shall obtain what I ask of thee 

and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, 

who is admirable in His saints. 

Amen.

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Prayer for Special Intentions

Prostrate at your feet O great and glorious little Saint, I humbly come with my fervent desires the prayer of my heart; accept it benignly and grant me the graces which I request

Saint Philomena pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

My heart is in turmoil I feel the pain grief is crushing me, I am in need of grace, help me, grant me my request

Saint Philomena pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

Weary without comfort deprived of hope alone overburdened by affliction I trust in you to answer my prayer

Saint Philomena pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

I realise that the cause of my many misfortunes were my grave sins, obtain for me the pardon which I need, instil in me the love for Jesus

Saint Philomena pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

Gaze on my home O Saint, turn your eyes on my family, look with your sweet smile upon your devout followers, dry the tears of everyone, put in my heart a ray of hope, give everyone peace, health and providence.

Saint Philomena pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

See how many graces I need, do not abandon me, you who are all powerful in God, keep me from sorrow and affliction let my heart be peaceful, free me from danger and ruin. Bless my home my family your followers and grant me my desired grace. (ask for the grace).

O lovely Saint do not abandon me and pray for me.

Glory be to the Father etc.

Through the virtue of your martyrdom may God have pity on us

Glory be to the Father etc.  (3 times)

by Monsignor Michele Camerlengo, Bishop of Nola

Novena Prayer To Our Lady of Velankanni

This Novena prayer will be helpful to those helpless people when everything fails, and who wants speedy and visible answers to their agony.

Oh Most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most Adorable Trinity from all eternity to be the most pure Mother of Jesus. Permit me, your humble and devoted servant, to remind you of the joy received in the instant of the Most Sacred Incarnation of our Divine Lord and during the nine months you carried Him in your chaste womb. I wish most sincerely that I could renew, or even increase that joy, by the fervour of my Prayers.

Oh! Tender Mother of the afflicted! Grant me under my present necessities that special protection You have promised to those who devoutly commemorate this ineffable joy. Relying on the infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting in the promise which He has made that those who ask should receive, and penetrated with confidence in your powerful prayers, I most humbly entreat you intercede for me. I beg you to obtain for me the favours which I petition for in this novena, if it be the Holy Will of God to grant them; to ask for me whatever graces I most stand in need of.

(Here specify your requests)

I desire by this novena, which I now offer in your honour, to prove the lively confidence I have in your intercession. Accept it, I beseech you, in honour of that supernatural love and joy, with which your Immaculate Heart was replenished during the abode of your divine Son in your womb; in veneration of which, I offer you the sentiments of my heart.

(Repeat the Hail Mary nine times)

and then say the following prayer:-

Oh! Mother of God! accept these salutations in union with the respect and veneration with which the Angel Gabriel first hailed you, "Full of Grace" I wish most sincerely that they may become so many gems in the crown of your incidental glory, which will increase in brightness to the end of the world.

I beseech you, Oh! comfortress of the afflicted, by the joy you received, when the word was made flesh, to obtain for me the favours and graces, which I have now implored through your powerful intercession. For this end I offer you all the good works which have even been performed in your honour. I most humbly entreat you for the love of the amiable Heart of Jesus, with which yours was ever so inflammed, to hear my humble prayers and to obtain my requests.

Amen.

Saint Jude Novena Prayer

Saint Jude, the saint 

for the hopeless and desperate Miracles.

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Adored, Glorified, Loved & Preserved throughout the world, now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, please pray for me. Saint Jude, Worker of Miracles, please pray for me.Saint Jude, Helper of the Hopeless, please pray for me. Amen."

"O most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, people honor and invoke you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, for I am so helpless and alone. Please help to bring me visible and speedy assistance. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly (state your request) and that I may praise God with you always." 

"I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you by publishing this request. Amen."

"Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and Martyr, Great in virtue and rich in miracles, Near kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful intercessor of all Who invoke your special patronage in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depths of my heart And humbly beg to whom God has given such great power To come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition, In return I promise to make your name known And cause you to be invoked. Saint Jude pray for me and all those who invoke your aid. Amen." 

Have Faith, Hope and Trust, 

NEVER stop praying and asking 

St.Jude for his intercessions.

St. Jude, Pray for all who invoke your aid.