Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
A traditional Catholic novena to Our Lady of Lourdes for healing, the sick, and pilgrims. Traditionally prayed February 2 through February 10.
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About This Novena
Our Lady of Lourdes is invoked here as Immaculate Mother, healer, and comforter. The tone is full of confidence without presumption: many cures are remembered, but the petition is still left to the will of God.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for healing, the sick, pilgrims, and trust in Mary.
Usual timing
February 2 through February 10
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Day 1: Immaculate Conception
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Opening Prayer
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Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest thy shining glory with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we praise thee for thine Immaculate Conception.
And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Health of the Infirm, Refuge of Sinners, Comforter of the Afflicted, thou knowest our wants, our troubles, and our sufferings; deign to cast upon us thy look of mercy. By appearing in the grotto of Lourdes, thou wast pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, from whence thou dost dispense thy favors, and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical.
We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore thy maternal affection, and intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the request we beseech of thee.
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O Mary Immaculate, O Mother of Christ, thine influence was plentitudinous with thy Divine Son, while still upon earth. Do thou shine forth thine influence ever present in Heaven. Pray for us, and obtain for us from thy Divine Son our special request, if it be His Will. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
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Our Lady
The Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
The story of Our Lady of Lourdes begins with a poor girl at a rough grotto. Bernadette Soubirous was fourteen, sickly, badly schooled, and from a family that had known real poverty. On February 11, 1858, while gathering firewood near Massabielle, she saw a lady in the hollow of the rock. The visits continued over the following months. Bernadette did not become impressive by telling the story. She became more exposed. People questioned her, doubted her, followed her, mocked her, and pressed her for details. The event was tested almost from the beginning because the messenger was weak and the claim was enormous.
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Lives of the Saints
The Appearing of Our Lady at Lourdes
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Litany of Loreto
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About this novena
Description
Our Lady of Lourdes is invoked here as Immaculate Mother, healer, and comforter. The tone is full of confidence without presumption: many cures are remembered, but the petition is still left to the will of God.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
healing, the sick, pilgrims, trust in Mary
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for healing, the sick, pilgrims, and trust in Mary.
Usual timing
February 2 through February 10
Fabisch statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Massabielle grotto