Novena
Prayer To Our Lady of Velankanni
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.
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Amen.
This
Novena prayer will be helpful to those helpless people when
everything fails, and who wants
speedy
and visible answers to their agony.
