Prayers and Devotions
Novenas
The Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena is a way to express and deepen Marian devotion, fostering a personal relationship with Mary, our mother, as a loving and compassionate intercessor. As Catholics, we have a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recognizing her unique role in salvation history. We should seek Mary’s motherly care to deepen our Faith and protect us from spiritual dangers.
The title “Perpetual Help” suggests continuous and ever-present assistance from Mary. This novena can be prayed as a way of acknowledging our constant need for guidance, grace, and support in daily life. Our Lady of Perpetual Help is often invoked for assistance in challenging situations, trials, and difficulties.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help also holds a special place as the patron saint of the Redemptorist religious order. This novena serves as a powerful means to seek the intercession of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, whether for the collective needs of all Redemptorists, for specific members, or if you are discerning a vocation to the Redemptorist religious order.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a beloved Marian devotion in the Catholic Church, centered around a revered icon that holds a rich history of miracles and piety. The icon itself is a Byzantine-style painting believed to have originated in Crete, Greece, during the 15th century. The image depicts the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus, with archangels Michael and Gabriel on either side.
This special image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help came from a merchant, who upon his dying, asked that Our Lady be placed in a church for public veneration. For 300 years, the picture was enshrined in St. Matthew’s Church until the French invaded Rome. The Augustinian fathers moved Our Lady to St. Eusebius and later to St. Mary of Posterula, where it stayed for 40 years. Pope Pius IX asked the Augustinians to give the picture to the Redemptorists. In 1866, during the transfer of Our Lady, a young boy was cured of meningitis and a young girl recovered the use of her paralyzed leg. The devotion continues to inspire believers to seek the perpetual help and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in their lives.
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living, and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary.
What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you (mention request here.)
Say the Hail Mary x3
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