Our Lady of Loreto — General Historical Marian Novena
Day 1 of 9
Day 1 — General Historical Marian Novena — Our Lady of Loreto — General Historical Marian Novena, Day 1
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Sandro Botticelli and workshop, The Virgin and Child, with a landscape beyond, public-domain religious artwork (generic Marian illustration, not an image of the Holy House of Loreto): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Virgin_and_Child,_with_a_landscape_beyond.jpeg
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Opening prayer
Make the Sign of the Cross. Present your intentions to the Lord through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The nine-day devotional form here uses the genuine historical general Marian novena prayer, without changing its words.
Prayer for day 1
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.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Traditional prayers
Our Father
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
Closing prayer
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source · Charles J. Callan, Blessed Be God (1925), “Novena to the Blessed Virgin”, public-domain original: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blessed_be_God_(Callan)/Novena_For_Christmas . This is a GENERAL prayer, editorially used as a nine-day devotion for Our Lady of Loreto; NOT an attested proper feast-specific novena. Image credit: Sandro Botticelli and workshop, The Virgin and Child, with a landscape beyond, public-domain religious artwork (generic Marian illustration, not an image of the Holy House of Loreto): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Virgin_and_Child,_with_a_landscape_beyond.jpeg