
Catholic novena
Our Lady of Knock Novena (General Marian Form)
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Prayer source
2026 selection of a complete public-domain general Marian novena (1925)
Charles J. Callan and John A. McHugh, Blessed Be God (1925), printed pp. 298-299, complete Novena to the Blessed Virgin. The choice of this general Marian form for Our Lady of Knock was made in 2026; it is a different complete edition from the former proper supplication. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Blessedbegodcomp00call.pdf#page=348. Catalog and rights: https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/blessedbegodcomp00call.
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- The complete general Novena to the Blessed Virgin in Blessed Be God (1925), selected for this Our Lady of Knock reading in 2026. This is a different historical devotion from the former Knock-specific supplication.
- Often prayed for
- Hope in distress, comfort in sorrow, reverence for the Mass, love of the Blessed Sacrament, and help for families.
- Suggested start
- August 14, 2027. You may also begin this novena at any time.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- August 22
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About This Novena
The Knock novena carries a quiet, pilgrim-like spirit. It asks not only for help in sorrow, but for deeper love of the Mass, stronger charity at home, and a more Eucharistic life. That gives it a beautiful depth for ordinary Catholics trying to remain faithful through loneliness, illness, or pressure.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for healing, family intentions, Ireland, and quiet trust in suffering.
Usual timing
August 14 through August 22
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Mary, Virgin ever blessed! who can worthily praise thee or give thee thanks, who, by that wondrous assent of thy will, didst rescue a fallen world? What honors can the weakness of our human nature pay to thee, which by thy intervention alone has found the way to restoration? Accept, then, such poor thanks as we have here to offer, though they are unequal to thy merits; and, receiving our vows obtain by thy prayers the remission of our offenses. Carry thou our prayers within the sanctuary of the heavenly audience, and bring forth from it the medicine of our reconciliation. Through thee may those sins become pardonable the release from which through thee we ask of God, and that be granted which we demand with confidence.
Accept what we offer, grant us what we seek, spare us what we fear, for thou art the sole hope of sinners. Through thee we hope for the forgiveness of our faults, and in thee, most blessed Virgin, is the hope of our reward. Holy Mary, succor the wretched, help the faint-hearted, comfort the sorrowful, pray for the people, shield the clergy, intercede for all women consecrated to God, let all feel thy aid who keep thy holy commemoration. Be thou at hand, ready to aid our prayers, when we pray, and bring back to us the answer we desire.
Make it thy care to intercede ever for the people of God, thou who, blessed of God, didst merit to bear the Redeemer of the world Who liveth and reigneth forever and ever. Amen.
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The complete general Novena to the Blessed Virgin in Blessed Be God (1925), selected for this Our Lady of Knock reading in 2026. This is a different historical devotion from the former Knock-specific supplication.
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Our Lady
The Story of Our Lady of Knock
Our Lady of Knock is one of the quietest of the approved Marian apparitions. On the evening of August 21, 1879, in the village of Knock in County Mayo, witnesses reported seeing a heavenly scene at the gable wall of the parish church. There was no spoken message and no secret. The figures stood in silence: Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, and an altar with the Lamb before a cross, surrounded by angels. Rain fell, but the witnesses remained. The apparition lasted long enough for people of different ages and temperaments to see and describe what was before them.
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Description
The Knock novena carries a quiet, pilgrim-like spirit. It asks not only for help in sorrow, but for deeper love of the Mass, stronger charity at home, and a more Eucharistic life. That gives it a beautiful depth for ordinary Catholics trying to remain faithful through loneliness, illness, or pressure.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
healing, family intentions, Ireland, quiet trust in suffering
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for healing, family intentions, Ireland, and quiet trust in suffering.
Usual timing
August 14 through August 22

Statue of Our Lady in the Apparition Chapel, Knock Shrine
