Perpetual Novena In Honor Of
Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal

The Miraculous Medal

The Medal of the Immaculate Conception, commonly called the Miraculous Medal, was manifested to Sister (now saint) Catherine Laboure. This took place in the chapel of the Motherhouse of Daughters of Charity on November 27, 1830.

Her feet rested on a white globe...I saw rings on her fingers...Each ring was set with gems...The larger gems emitted greater rays and the smaller gems smaller rays.

Catherine heard an interior voice: These rays symbolize the graces I shed upon those who ask for them. The gems from which rays do not fall are the graces for which souls forgot to ask.

An oval flame formed around the Blessed Virgin, and within it in letters of gold Catherine read the words: O Mary Conceived Without Sin, Pray For Us Who Have Recourse To You.

The voice spoke again: Have a Medal struck after this model. All who wear it will receive graet graces; they should wear it around the neck. Graces will abound for persons who wear it with confidence.

Catherine continued: The tableau seemed to turn, and I beheld the reverse of the Medal: a large M surmounted by a bar and a cross; beneath the M were the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the one crowned with thorns, the other pierced with a sword.

The front of the Medal represents Mary standing on the earth, her foot crushing the head of a serpent, and her hands outstretched to all who ask her assistance. The prayer encircling her contains one of her most precious titles: O MARY CONCEIVED WIYHOUT SIN, PRAY FOR US WHO HAVE RECOURSED TO YOU. The rays of light from her hands symbolize the graces which she is only too eager to bestow upon those who wear the Medal and pray to her.

The Medal was made according to Our Lady's design. It was freely circulated and in a short time was worn by millions. In its wake followed innumerable wonders. Health was restored, sickness banished, blessing bestowed.

NOVENA EXERCISES
(Hymn) - Immaculate Mary 

Immaculate Mary,
         your praises we sing,

You reign now in splendor
         with Jesus, our King.

CHORUS
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria!
         Ave,Ave, Maria!

Your name is our power,
         your virtues our light,

your love is our comfort,
         your pleading out might.

CHORUS

OPENING PRAYER

Priest:
In the name of the Father and of the son and the Holy Spirit.
People:
Amen.

Priest:
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created.
People:
And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Priest:
Let us pray.
Oh God who did instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise and ever to rejoice in His consolation, through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
People:
Amen.

Priest:
O Mary, conceived without sin.
People:
Pray for us who have recourse to you. (3-TIMES)

Priest and People:
O Lord Jesus Christ, who have vouchsafed to glorify by numberless miracles the Blessed Virgin Mary, immaculate from the first moment of her conception, grant that all who devoutly implore her protection on earth, may eternally enjoy Your presence in heaven, who, with the Father and Holy Spirit, live and reign, God, for ever and ever. Amen

O Lord Jesus Christ who for the accomplishment of Your greatest works, have chosen the weak things of the world, that no flesh may glory in Your sight; and who for a better and more widely diffused belief in the Immaculate Conception of Your Mother, have wished that the Miraculous Medal be manifested to Saint Catherine Laboure, grant, we beseech You, that filled with like humility, we glorify this mystery by word and work. Amen

MEMORARE

Priest and People:
Remember, O most compassionate Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your assistance, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto you, O virgin of Virgins, our Mother; to you we come; before you we kneel sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your clemency hear and answer them. Amen.

NOVENA PRAYER

Priest and People:
O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this Novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray. (Here privately form your petitions.) You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought, word and deed may tend to His greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are Queen of angels and of men, Amen

AN ACT OF CONSECRATION TO OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL

Priest and People:
O virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, we dedicate and consecrate ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. May this Medal be for each of us a sure sign of your affection for us and a constant reminder of our duties toward you. Ever while wearing it, may we be blessed by your loving protection and preserved in the grace of your Son. O most powerful Virgin, Mother of our Savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives. Obtain for us, your children, the grace of a happy death; so that, in union with you, we may enjoy the bliss of heaven forever. Amen.

Priest:
O Mary, conceived without sin.
People:
Pray for us who have recourse to you. (3-TIMES)

(Hymn) - HAIL, HOLY QUEEN
ENTHRONED ABOVE 

Hail, holy Queen enthroned above,
         O Maria.
Hail, Queen of mercy and of love,
         O Maria.

CHORUS

Triumph, all ye Cherubim
Sing with us, ye Seraphim,
Heav'n and earth resound the hymn;
Salve, Salve, Salve Regina.

The cause of joy to men below,
         O Maria.
The spring through which all graces flow,
         O Maria.

CHORUS

O gentle, loving, holy one,
         O Maria.
The God of Light became your Son,
         O Maria.

CHORUS

BENEDICTION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT

Humbly let us voice our homage for so great a sacrament, Let all former rites surrender to the Lord's New Testament; What our senses fail to fathom let us grasp through faith's consent!
Glory, honor, adoration let us sing with one accord! Praised be God, almighty Father; Praised be Christ, His Son, Our Lord; Praised be God the Holy Spirit; Triune Godhead be adored! Amen.

LET US PRAY

Priest:
God, who left us in this wondrous sacrament a memorial of Your Passion, help us, we beg You, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood, that we may always experience the effects of your Redemption. Who live and reign forever and ever.

People: Amen.

THE DIVINE PRAISES

BLESSED BE GOD.
BLESSED BE HIS HOLY NAME.
BLESSED BE JESUS CHRIST, TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF JESUS.
BLESSED BE HIS MOST SACRED HEART.
BLESSED BE HIS MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD.
BLESSED BE JESUS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR.
BLESSED BE THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PARACLETE.
BLESSED BE THE GREAT MOTHER OF GOD, MARY MOST HOLY.
BLESSED BE HER HOLY AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
BLESSED BE HER GLORIOUS ASSUMPTION.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF MARY, VIRGIN AND MOTHER.
BLESSED BE ST. JOSEPH, HER MOST CHASTE SPOUSE.
BLESSED BE GOD IN HIS ANGELS AND IN HIS SAINTS.

( Where approved by the Bishop)

May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection at every moment in all the tabernacles of the world even to the end of time. Amen.

SING:
O Mary, conceived without sin,
Pray for us, pray for us,
O Mary, conceived without sin,
Pray for us, who have recourse to thee.