Our Lady of Perpetual Help Prayer

The icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help has been kept by the Redemptorists in Rome since 1866. Pray to her for spiritual and everyday needs and in sickness, or make the nine-day novena below.

Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Spiritual Needs

O Mother of Perpetual Help, with the greatest confidence I come before Thy sacred Picture, in order to invoke thine aid. Thou hast seen the wounds which Jesus has been pleased to receive for our sake; thou hast seen the Blood of thy Son flowing for our salvation; thou knowest how thy Son desires to apply to us the fruit of His Redemption. Behold I cast myself at thy feet, and pray thee to obtain for my soul the grace I stand so much in need of. O Mary, most loving of all mothers, obtain for me from the heart of Jesus, the source of every good, this grace (here mention it). O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou desirest our salvation far more than we ourselves; thy Son has given thee to us for our Mother; thou hast thyself chosen to be called Mother of Perpetual Help. I trust not in my merits, but in thy powerful intercession; I trust in thy goodness; I trust in thy motherly love. Mother of Perpetual Help, for the love thou bearest to Jesus, thy Son and my Redeemer, for the love of thy great servant Alphonsus, for the love of my soul, obtain for me the grace I ask from thee. Amen.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Times of Need

O Mother of Perpetual Help, numerous clients continually surround thy holy Picture, all imploring thy mercy. All bless thee as the assured help of the miserable; all feel the benefit of thy maternal protection. With confidence, then, do I present myself before thee in my misery. See, dear Mother, the many evils to which we are exposed; see how numerous are our wants. Trials and sorrows often depress us; reverses of fortune and privations are grievous, bring misery into our homes; everywhere we meet the cross. Have pity, compassionate Mother, on us and on our families; especially in this my necessity (here mention it). Help me, O my Mother, in my distress; deliver me from all my ills; or if it be the will of God that I should suffer still longer, grant that I may endure all with love and patience. This grace I expect of thee with confidence, because thou art our Perpetual Help. Amen.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Sickness

O dear Mother of Perpetual Help, behold how much I suffer from this my sickness. Together with the body my soul is also afflicted. I have not even strength to say a prayer as I ought to do. Nothing is able to give me any relief. Even the visit and compassion of my best friends do not give me any comfort. Hence my courage begins to fail; impatience and sadness oppress my soul. In this my great distress I put all my trust in thee, most tender of all mothers. Thy compassionate heart will certainly have pity on me; yes, most merciful Mother, thou wilt not forget thy poor, afflicted child. (Here mention your sickness.) Obtain then for me courage and strength to accept all these trials from the hand of God with patience and resignation. If it is for the good of my soul, grant that I may recover my former health; but if it is the will of God that I should suffer still longer, or that this sickness should lead me to a better life, I am perfectly resigned, for I am sure that thou, O loving Mother, wilt obtain for me the grace to do whatever God demands of me. Amen.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Prayer of St Alphonsus to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

St Alphonsus Liguori

Most holy and Immaculate Virgin and my Mother Mary, to thee, who art the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the advocate, the hope, and the refuge of sinners, I have recourse today, I who am the most miserable of all. I render thee my most humble homages, O great Queen; and I thank thee for all the graces thou hast conferred on me until now; particularly for having delivered me from hell, which I have so often deserved. I love thee, O most amiable Lady; and for the love which I bear thee, I promise to serve thee always, and to do all in my power to make others love thee also. I place in thee all my hopes, I confide my salvation to thy care. Accept me for thy servant, and receive me under thy mantle, O Mother of mercy. And since thou art so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or rather obtain for me strength to triumph over them until death. Of thee I ask a perfect love of Jesus Christ. From thee I hope to die a good death. O my Mother, by the love which thou bearest to God, I beseech thee, to help me at all times, but especially at the last moments of my life. Leave me not, I beseech thee, until thou seest me safe in heaven, blessing thee and singing thy mercy for all eternity. So I hope. So may it be. Amen.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Each day: nine Hail Marys, the Litany of Loreto and the prayers below, with a different prayer for days 1-3, 4-6 and 7-9. Her feast is June 27.

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Daily Prayer of the Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

℣.Thou hast been made for us, O Lady, a refuge.℟.A helper in need and tribulation.

O Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst give to us Thy Mother, Mary, whose renowned image we venerate, to be a mother ever ready to help us, grant, we beseech Thee, that we who constantly implore her aid may merit to enjoy perpetually the fruits of Thy redemption, who livest and reignest forever and ever. Amen.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Prayer of St Alphonsus to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

St Alphonsus Liguori

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 1 to 3

Behold at thy feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help! a wretched sinner who has recourse to thee and confides in thee. O Mother of Mercy! have pity on me. I hear thee called by all, the Refuge and the Hope of Sinners; be, then, my refuge and my hope. Assist me for the love of Jesus Christ; stretch forth thy hand to a miserable, fallen creature, who recommends himself to thee and who devotes himself to thy service forever. I bless and thank Almighty God, who in His mercy has given me this confidence in thee, which I hold to be a pledge of my eternal salvation. It is true that in the past I have miserably fallen into sin because I had not recourse to thee. I know, too, that thou wilt assist me, if I recommend myself to thee; but I fear that, in time of danger, I may neglect to call on thee, and thus lose my soul. This grace, then, I ask of thee, and this I beg, with all the fervor of my soul, that, in all the attacks of hell, I may ever have recourse to thee. O Mary! help me. O Mother of Perpetual Help, never suffer me to lose my God.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Day 2: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 1 to 3 again.

Day 3: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 1 to 3 again.

Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 4 to 6

O Mother of Perpetual Help! grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O purest Mary! O sweetest Mary! let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady! to succor me, whenever I call on thee; for in all my temptations, in all my needs, I shall never cease to call on thee ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary.

O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fills my soul when I utter thy sacred name, or even only think of thee! I thank the Lord for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering thy name. Let my love for thee prompt me ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Day 5: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 4 to 6 again.

Day 6: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 4 to 6 again.

Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 7 to 9

O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou art the dispenser of all the gifts which God grants to us miserable sinners; and for this end, He had made thee so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful, in order that thou mayest succor us in our misery. Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to thee; come to my help, I commend myself to thee. In thy hands I place my eternal salvation, and to thee I intrust my soul. Count me among thy most devoted servants; take me under thy protection, and it is enough for me. For, if Thou protect me, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because thou art more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my Judge, because by one prayer from thee He will be appeased. But one thing I fear; that in the hour of temptation, I may, through negligence fail to have recourse to thee and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me therefore, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace ever to have recourse to thee, O Mother of Perpetual Help!

From a 1927 Perpetual Help confraternity booklet

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Day 8: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 7 to 9 again.

Day 9: pray Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Days 7 to 9 again.