A Byzantine icon from the 1400s depicts Our Lady of Perpetual Help, holding the child Jesus tenderly as He looks at the implements of His Passion.
Starts: June 18th Feastday: June 27th
History
A Byzantine icon from the 1400s depicts Our Lady of Perpetual Help, holding the child Jesus tenderly as He looks at the implements of His Passion. The icon was thought lost with the destruction of the church it was housed in by the French Revolutionaries during their occupation of Rome, but the Augustinians had rescued it and it eventually came under the guardianship of the Redemptorists. Join millions of Catholics who have called upon Our Lady of Perpetual Help in their great needs.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena
Intro Prayer
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).
St. Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan, then kidnapped and sold into slavery. She eventually gained her freedom, became Catholic and entered religious life with the Canossian Daughters of Charity. Facts about St. Josephine Bakhita Novena Feastday: February 8th Novena Starts: January 31st Patron saint of Sudan Birth: 1869 Death: February 8, 1947 St. Josephine Bakhita Novena Prayers (Pray this intro prayer each day before the daily prayer) In You, Lord, I place my hope, I raise my spirit to my God. You are the God of my salvation, every day I hope in You. Do not let me be disappointed! In this novena I humbly ask for (mention request here). Daily Prayers Day 1: Heavenly Father, through the intercession of Saint Bakhita, grant us a great trust in You who are our rock and refuge. Grant that, in every circumstance of life, we may abandon ourselves to you like little children in the arms of the Father. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Day 2: Almighty God, through the interc...
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The Fourteen Holy Helpers were a group of saints invoked with great fervor during the Black Death in Europe from 1346 to 1349. Pray this novena to stop coronavirus and other pandemics Starts: July 30th Feastday: August 8th Introduction The Fourteen Holy Helpers were a group of saints invoked with great fervor during the Black Death in Europe from 1346 to 1349. These great saints individually were patrons and patronesses of various maladies, and each had developed a large and devoted following over the centuries. It was understandable, then, during the Plague that the faithful turned to their intercession before the throne of God. While this feast was removed from the Roman calendar in 1969, the fourteen holy helpers remain saints of the Church, even if for some the historical evidence of their lives is scant. Fourteen Holy Helpers Novena The Holy Helpers are: St. Achatius: May 8th — Headaches St. Barbara: Dec. 4th — Fever — Sudden death St. Blaise : Feb. 3rd — Ills...
