Ninth to Our Lady of Fatima
Nine days of prayer with the Virgin of the Rosary of Fatima, who in 1917 showed three pastors the tenderness of her Immaculate Heart and brought us a message of salvation and peace. His party is held 13 May; the ninth is traditionally prayed of 4-12 Maybut it can be done at any time.
How you pray every day: start with the offer and the preparatory prayer → the prayer of the corresponding day → meditate and pray the final prayer.
Offer for every day
Oh, my God! I think, I love, I hope and I love you. I ask forgiveness for those who do not believe, do not worship, do not wait and do not love you.
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit! I love you deeply and offer you the most precious body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages with which He is offended; and for the infinite merits of His Most Holy Heart and intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I ask you for the conversion of sinners.
Preparatory prayer
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the Rosary and Mother of mercy, who you deigned to manifest in Fatima the tenderness of your Immaculate Heart by bringing us messages of salvation and peace. Trust in your maternal mercy and grateful to the goodness of your most loving Heart, we come to your plants to give you the tribute of our veneration and love. Give us the graces we need to faithfully fulfill your message of love, and the one we ask of you in this Ninth, if it is to be for the greater glory of God, honour your and benefit of our souls. So be it.
Then pray the prayer for the corresponding day.
The nine days
Day one
Penance and repair. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the poor sinners! who, appearing in Fatima, let a slight shadow of sadness be made clear in your heavenly face to indicate the pain caused to you by the sins of men and who with maternal compassion you called for no longer to afflict your Son with guilt and to repair sins with mortification and penance. Give us the grace of a sincere pain of the sins committed and the generous resolve to repair with works of penance and mortification all the offenses that are inferred to your Divine Son and to your Immaculate Heart.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Second day
Holiness of life. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of divine grace, who dressed in a small white woman, you appeared to simple and innocent pastors, thus teaching us how much we should love and seek the innocence of the soul, and who through them requested the amendment of customs and the holiness of a perfect Christian life. Mercifully grant us the grace to know how to appreciate the dignity of our Christian status and to lead a life in everything in accordance with the baptismal promises.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Third day
Love of prayer. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, an insignia of devotion, who appeared in Fatima with the Holy Rosary standing in your hands, and who persistently repeated, "Pray, pray much," to remove through prayer the evils that threaten us. Grant us the gift and spirit of prayer, the grace of being faithful in the fulfillment of the great precept of prayer, doing it every day, so that we can well observe the holy commandments, overcome the temptations and reach the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ in this life and the happy union with Him in the other.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Fourth day
Love to the Church. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of the Church!, who you called on the pastors of Fatima to pray for the Pope, and instilled in their simple souls a great veneration and love for him, as Vicar of your Son and his representative on earth. It also infuses to us the spirit of veneration and docility towards the authority of the Roman Pontiff, of unwavering adherence to his teachings, and in him and with him a great love and respect for all the ministers of the Holy Church, through which we participate the life of grace in the sacraments.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Fifth day
Mary, health of the sick. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, the health of the sick and the comforter of the afflicted! who is moved by the prayer of the shepherds, you have already worked healing in your apparitions in Fatima, and have made this place, sanctified by your presence, an office of your maternal mercies for all the afflicted. To your maternal heart we came full of filial trust, showing the diseases of our souls and the afflictions and ailments all of our life. Take a look upon them of compassion and remedy them with the tenderness of your hands, so that we may serve you and love you with all our heart and with all our being.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Sixth day
Mary, the refuge of sinners. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, the refuge of sinners, who taught the pastors of Fatima to pray incessantly to the Lord so that those wretches will not fall into the eternal sorrows of hell, and who have manifested to one of the three that the sins of the flesh are the ones who carry the most souls to those terrible flames. In our souls a great horror to sin and the holy fear of divine justice, and at the same time arouse compassion for the fate of the poor sinners and a holy zeal to work with our prayers, examples and words for their conversion.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Seventh day
Mary, relief from the souls of purgatory. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of purgatory!, who taught the shepherds of Fatima to pray to God for the souls of purgatory, especially for the most abandoned. We entrust to the inexhaustible tenderness of your maternal heart all the souls who suffer in that place of purification, in particular those of all our close and family and those most abandoned and in need, to ease their sorrows and bring them to the region of light and peace, to sing there forever your mercies.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Eighth day
Mary, Queen of the Rosary. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, who in your last apparition you made yourself known as the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and in all of them you recommended the prayer of this devotion as the most secure and effective remedy for all the evils and calamities that afflict us, both of the soul and of the body, both public and private. He infused in our souls a deep esteem of the mysteries of our Redemption that are commemorated in the prayer of the Rosary, so that we may always live from its fruits. Grant us the grace of always being faithful to the practice of praying daily to honor you, accompanying your goings, pains and glories, and thus deserve your maternal protection and assistance at all times of life, but especially at the time of death.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Ninth day
The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Begin with the offering and the preparatory prayer.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, our sweetest Mother! who chose the pastors of Fatima to show the world the tenderness of your merciful Heart, and proposed to them devotion to it as the means by which God wants to give peace to the world, as the way to bring souls to God, and as a supreme pledge of salvation. May we understand your message of love and mercy, that we embrace it with filial adhesion and that we practice it always with fervor; and so be your Heart our refuge, our comfort, and the way that leads us to love and union with your Son Jesus.
Meditate and pray the final prayer
Closing prayer for every day
O God, whose only begotten, with his life, death and resurrection, deserved us the prize of eternal salvation! We beg you to grant us that, by meditating on the mysteries of the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let us imitate the examples that teach us and achieve the prize they promise. By Jesus Christ our Lord himself. Amen.