Ninth to Our Lady of Perpetual Relief
Nine days of prayer with the Mother of the Perpetual Relief, whose icon shows us the Child Jesus taking refuge in the hands of his Mother. His party is held 27 June; the ninth is traditionally prayed of 18-26 Junebut it can be done at any time of need.
How you pray every day: the preparatory prayer → the meditation of the day → ask for the grace you want to achieve by praying nine Avemarias → day prayer → practice.
Preparatory prayer for every day
Blessed Virgin, perpetual relief from the souls who welcome your maternal love: dignify yourself to ask for me your Most Holy Son and Lord our Jesus Christ, that all my thoughts, words and actions of this day and of my whole life may be pleasing to you.
Accept, my dear Mother, the short gift that I offer you in this ninth, and reach me the favor that I ask of you in it, if it is for your greater glory, honor your and good of my soul. Amen.
The nine days
Day one
Jesus Christ wants us to come to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in our work.
Raise your sight, O Christian, and contemplate the Virgin of Perpetual Help. Look at the Child Jesus, who with his trembling hands takes and narrows the hand of his tender Mother. What happened? That two angels present to him the instruments of his future Passion, and that by seeing them the adorable Infant is filled with fear and seeks in his sweet Mother protection and protection. Therefore he wants to tell you that, in his imitation, you must also always seek in Mary the perpetual relief in the midst of the afflictions of the present life.
Meditate and ask with 9 You will observe the grace that will be reached in this ninth
Prayer. O my Savior, Jesus Christ! As I see you in the arms of your Mother, I see that in the midst of your holy fear you are strong with her, and tell me that she imitates you, and I also resort to my perpetual help. I would therefore like to give myself to Ella without any restrictions. Oh Maria! God has wanted to honor you by communicating to the cult of your images miraculous virtue. Inspire me, O Mother of Perpetual Help, unlimited trust in your powerful goodness.
Practice. Do this nocturnal with fervor.
Second day
Our Lady of Perpetual Relief wants us to come to Her in all our needs.
We see that the Most Holy Virgin of Perpetual Help, when the Child Jesus narrows his hand, instead of turning his eyes to Him, brings them back to us. He certainly wants to show us his ardent desire for us to come to Her. With this tender and loving look he is telling us all: I am the Mother of God, but I am also your Mother. What greater desire can a mother have than to help and help her children? So come, my children, to me. I come to you in all your needs and miseries; in your sorrows, in your misfortunes, in your doubts; and if you will ever come to fall, unfortunately, after your fall come: I am the Mother of Perpetual Help; I will comfort you, I will confirm you, I will defend you and lead you to the blessed Homeland of heaven.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. Oh my sweet mother! If I did not see my perpetual help in you, my sins would lead me to fear that there was no mercy for me. But you are the perpetual mercy: after God, I want to put all my trust in you, and from now on I intend to always go to you in all my needs. Oh Mother of the Perpetual Help! Be glad to help me at all times and in all places, in my temptations and difficulties, in all the miseries of this life, and especially in the hour of death.
Practice. To often call on Our Lady of Perpetual Help during the ninth.
Third day
Saving Our Lady of Perpetual Relief is a safe way to get all the treasures of heaven.
Let us consider each of the words of this advocation: Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Mary is Lady, that is, Mother of God, the mighty Queen of heaven and earth. Mary is ours: our, for being the Mother of the Redeemer of men, the Advocate of sinners, the Mother of mercy and the Corredeemer; and our, above all, for her wonderful tenderness of Mother. Mary is our help, for with him she frees us from the greatest of the misfortunes of this life, that is, from sin. Mary watches over us, takes away the occasions and diminishes the vehemency of temptations; Mary retains in her children the sanctifying grace and love of God, and gets them perseverance; Mary softens our temporal and spiritual sorrows. Finally, Mary is our perpetual relief, for she will help us at all times and at all times. It is our help at the right time, in the formidable trance of death and in the midst of the flames of purgatory.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. O Lady Our, Mother of Perpetual Help! How many treasures of graces and blessings you provide to individuals and families who consecrate to you! Oh, my God! Be glad to receive us all as your children and to pour out your insignia favors on all families.
Practice. To introduce more and more into the family itself the custom of resorting to Our Lady of Perpetual Relief family and continuously.
Fourth day
Our Lady of Perpetual Relief helps her devotees to get out of sin.
One of the main offices in which Our Lady of Perpetual Relief is to bring souls out of sin. As a mother weeps and groans over her son's body, whom she wishes she could resurrect, Mary feels ardent that sinners will return to the life of grace. Their great occupation is to intercede for them without ceasing; and She glories to be their untiring advocate and to reach them the grace of true conversion, provided they have at least the sincere desire to come out of sin and to come to Her asking for the strength necessary to break the chains with which they are enslaved by guilt.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. O merciful advocate and refuge of sinners! I have offended God so much. In your hands I put my eternal salvation. Oh Mother of the Perpetual Help! Let him no longer have the immense misfortune to correspond with vile ingratitude to your continued favors. Reach me from your Son the grace of a sincere conversion, that I may henceforth love him with all my heart.
Practice. To pray to Our Lady of Perpetual Relief that we will be free from all sin and that we will not reaffect our guilt.
Fifth day
Our Lady of Perpetual Relief defends her devotees in temptations.
The Christian's life on earth is a constant struggle. We are surrounded by enemies everywhere; of enemies of all kinds, who conjure against us, machining our destruction and ruin. Who will defend us in the midst of so many dangers? The one who continually watches for his children: Our Lady of Perpetual Relief, who alone is more terrible than an army put in order of battle; the one who is a tower of David, an inexpugnable fortress, of which there are a thousand shields, armor of the strong, and at the same time our Mother; Mother so tender and loving, that She wishes to grant us her help more than we can reach him.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. Oh Maria! If I have had the misfortune to sin, I myself have been the author of this misfortune. Ah! If I had called upon you, you would have come in my help and I would not have fallen. May I remember you in the hour of danger and call on you to say, "My God, help me!" So I'll go out with the victory.
Practice. To resort to Our Lady of Perpetual Help as soon as you are tempted.
Sixth day
Our Lady of Perpetual Relief assists your devotees in all the needs and works of life.
Our nature has horror to the contradictions and works of this life, which are, however, marked favors that God makes to the souls who love him. True wisdom is to discover the invaluable treasures of merits that are locked in humiliation and work. Who then will make this treasure known to us? Mary Most Holy, the Queen of the martyrs. Our Lady of Perpetual Relief, who spent his whole life in pain and pain, will teach us by his example that in this valley of tears the cross is the inheritance of the chosen, and will make us more responsible for the work of this painful exile.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. O Mary, Mother and Lady of the Perpetual Help! How to complain about my work, when I consider your coming pains? You are the true Mother of God, and your life was a life of pain and suffering: I therefore want to accept with resignation all the sorrows that God sends me. Reach me, my God, the grace of never complaining at my work.
Practice. To resort in all my sorrows to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Seventh day
Our Lady of Perpetual Relief protects her devotees at the time of death.
The solemn moment in which we die decides our fate, happy or unhappy, for all eternity. That is the time when the demon unfolds all his cunning and all his strength to see of winning a new soul. But let us not faint: let us have confidence, for that is also the time of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Not on the bucket does every faithful Christian say so often: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the time of our death. There, then, he will be at our side at the time of death, so that we can happily pass from time to eternity.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. Oh Maria! When I think of the anguish of my last hour, I tremble and feel full of confusion. "Do not abandon me, My Mother, in such critical moments: conceive to me the grace that I then invoke you more fervently than ever, in order to expire with your very sweet name and that of your Most Holy Son on your lips.
Practice. To entrust each of you to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Eighth day
Our Lady of Perpetual Help helps her devotees in Purgatory.
The souls of Purgatory are very worthy of compassion, because they suffer terrible torments and cannot help themselves; but Mary helps them with the most tender mercy. The Most Holy Virgin relieves those souls so loved by begging for them, and sometimes even descends to that place of torment to comfort and comfort her faithful servants; even more so, her powerful and maternal intercession is used to shorten the time of her sorrows and to deliver them from that purifying fire.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Prayer. Oh Maria! How many sins I have committed throughout my life, and how little has my penance been! Oh, how long and how terrible Purgatory will be for me, if you do not grant me your help! I put all my trust in you. O Virgin of the Perpetual Help! In the face of your feet, I pray you, get me the grace not to fall into even the slightest faults, and to atone for all my sins in this life. I hope you won't deny me this mercy.
Practice. To pray to Our Lady of Perpetual Help for the souls of Purgatory.
Ninth day
Consecrated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and serving her with fidelity is to make perseverance true.
On this day let us consecrate ourselves to Mary; and for this let us do what She does for us. Mary loves us; for we love her. What a honor to us, to love the Mother of God! Let us love her by giving herself to her with all confidence, for being our true Mother. Mary is our beatitude; she is our perpetual help. For our part, we promise to constantly resort to his mercy; we promise to persevere in our daily exercises or practices of devotion in his honor, and we will experience how true this sentence is: that the true devotee of Mary cannot be condemned.
Medate and order with 9 Avemarias
Consecration to Mary. Oh Mother of the Perpetual Help! I consecrate my body to you with all your senses, and my soul to your powers. From now on, I want to serve you with fervor, to call on you unabated and to work to gain hearts that love you. Oh, my God! Make no day of my life pass without me calling on you with filial love.
Practice. To entrust our perseverance to Our Lady of Perpetual Relief.
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