Friday, August 15, 2014

Novena for Iraq: Day ONE

Starting today, on the Feast of the Assumption, finishing on Saturday August 23, join in praying this "Novena to the Immaculate Heart," for the Christians and other minorities facing death and persecution. First, pray the opening prayer, followed by the daily intention, followed by the Rosary. Each day I will re-post the daily intention. 


Opening Prayer
Immaculate Virgin, by the holy will of your Son my Lord Jesus Christ, you are my Mother in Heaven. Your Immaculate Heart is full of love, mercy and compassion for sinners like me. I ask that you intercede for me today for…

(mention your prayer intentions)

I trust in your intercession before the throne of God for my needs. Please pray also that if my requests are not in accordance with the will of God, that I may be, like you, conformed to His will and not my own.
Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pray for us!
Amen.

First Intention: FIDELITY
Most Holy Mother of God, our Mother in the order of grace, we the beloved of thy Immaculate Heart come to thee this first day of this Novena to pray for the grace of fidelity.

Mary, Mother of holy Love, our Confidence, we invoke thy most sweet Heart, that we may always be faithful to God, the Holy catholic Church, the Good Angels, our Guardian Angels in particular, and to the Saints in Heaven of which Thou are the Queen.

Mother Mary, Model of Faith while thou was on earth, may we have a fidelity that avoids any depreciating criticism, not only in thoughts, but even more in words. Grant us the strength of self-control so that in all matters or questions of integrity, we may act and answer as thou Mary and our Guardian Angel would answer. May we be steadfast in the service of Holy Mother Church until death and adore the Most Blessed trinity in communion with thee and all Angels and saints for all eternity.

O Virgin most faithful, Scripture declares thee "blessed among women;" again it says, "Blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord." - Luke 1:45
Obtain for us a faith so strong that we will accept the Word of God through His Holy Church, even when it it is difficult and seems contrary to the way of the world.

Loyal to the very end, Mother Mary, thou stood beneath the Cross on calvary with John the beloved disciple. Thou heard with him the words of the redeeming Savior as He completed His public ministry, "Woman, behold thy Son... Behold thy mother." - John 19:26-27 
It was thy noble role to be Mother and Heart of the infant Church, sustaining the disciples of Christ in courage and prayer, drawing down the power of the Holy Ghost as they gathered around thee after the Ascension awaiting the first Feast of Pentecost.

Mother of the Church, it has ever been thy part in the Holy Church to invoke for us the virtues of Faith and Hope so that we might live in love, patterned after thy Immaculate Heart. Thou believed, Mary, not only when things were easy; thou continued to believe in Jesus in his darkest hours. With thee as mother, we shall persevere in fidelity until the very end. Amen.

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