Today is the Feast of Saint Blaise!It was a short feast for
us today. We celebrated with delicious taquitos for dinner! Taquitos look like
candles right? We needed something quick and easy for our Monday night. I am
working on some reorganization in our home and it has been a real slow work in
progress. We are going to extend our Saint Blaise and Candlemas celebrations
into tomorrow with coloring pages and creating some Liturgical Binders for
Little Man and Squishy. Come check out my blog for some updates in the next
couple of days!
Saint Blaise, pray for us!
I will also start planning our Lenten activities so we can
be prepared in March.
I have a special devotion to Saint Bernadette, She was my
Confirmation Saint, and in conjunction I have a deep devotion to Our Lady of
Lourdes. Tonight would be a perfect night to start your Novena to Our Lady of
Lourdes, whose feast day is February 11th! I have written out the Novena below:
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES
DAY ONE
O Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, virgin and mother,
queen of heaven, chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Eternal Word
and in virtue of this title preserved from original sin, we kneel before you as
did little Bernadette at Lourdes and pray with childlike trust in you that as
we contemplate your glorious appearance at Lourdes, you will look with mercy on
our present petition and secure for us a favorable answer to the request for
which we are making this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto
us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our
comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY TWO
Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to
manifest yourself shining with light, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of
Lourdes, saying to the child Saint Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate
Conception!" O Mary Immaculate, inflame our hearts with one ray of the burning
love of your pure heart Let them be consumed with love for Jesus and for you,
in order that we may merit one day to enjoy your glorious eternity. O dispenser
of His graces here below, take into your keeping and present to your Divine Son
the petition for which we are making this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption,
triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY THREE
You are all fair, O Mary, and there is in you no stain of
original sin." O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have
recourse to thee. O brilliant star of sanctity, as on that lovely day, upon a
rough rock in Lourdes you spoke to the child Bernadette and a fountain broke
from the plain earth and miracles happened and the great shrine of Lourdes
began, so now I beseech you to hear our fervent prayer and do, we beseech you,
grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption,
triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY FOUR
O Immaculate Queen of Heaven, we your wayward, erring
children, join our unworthy prayers of praise and thanksgiving to those of the
angels and saints and your own-the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity may be
glorified in heaven and on earth. Our Lady of Lourdes, as you looked down with
love and mercy upon Bernadette as she prayed her rosary in the grotto, look
down now, we beseech you, with love and mercy upon us. From the abundance of graces
granted you by your Divine Son, sweet Mother of God, give to each of us all
that your motherly heart sees we need and at this moment look with special
favor on the grace we seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption,
triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY FIVE
O Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our mother, from the
heights of your dignity look down mercifully upon us while we, full of
confidence in your unbounded goodness and confident that your Divine Son will
look favorably upon any request you make of Him in our behalf, we beseech you
to come to our aid and secure for us the favor we seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption,
triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY SIX
O glorious Mother of God, so powerful under your special
title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore
your powerful intercession in obtaining from the gracious Heart of Jesus all
the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare and for
the special favor we so earnestly seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Lady of Bernadette, with the stars of heaven in your hair
and the roses of earth at your feet, look with compassion upon us today as you
did so long ago on Bernadette in the Grotto of Lourdes.
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption,
triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY SEVEN
O Almighty God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin Mary did prepare a worthy dwelling place for your Son, we humbly
beseech you that as we contemplate the apparition of Our Lady in the Grotto of
Lourdes, we may be blessed with health of mind and body. O most gracious Mother Mary, beloved Mother
of Our Lord and Redeemer, look with favor upon us as you did that day on
Bernadette and intercede with him for us that the favor we now so earnestly
seek may be granted to us.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto
us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our
comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY EIGHT
O Immaculate Mother of God, from heaven itself you came to
appear to the little Bernadette in the rough Grotto of Lourdes! And as
Bernadette knelt at your feet and the miraculous spring burst forth and as multitudes have
knelt ever since before your shrine, O Mother of God, we kneel before you today
to ask that in your mercy you plead with your Divine Son to grant the special
favor we seek in this novena.
(make your request)
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto
us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our
comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
DAY NINE
O glorious Mother of God, to you we raise our hearts and
hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart
of Jesus all the graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare,
particularly for the grace of a happy death. O Mother of our Divine Lord, as we
conclude this novena for the special favor we seek at this time.
(make your request)
We feel animated with confidence that your prayers in our
behalf will be graciously heard. O Mother of My Lord, through the love you bear
to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His Name, hear our prayers and obtain our
petitions.
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of
Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto
us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our
comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
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