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Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Triduum to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Feast Day June 27. Triduum june 24-26, 2023.
Pray to OMPH
- Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
  Mother of Perpetual Help, your very name inspires confidence. We come before your holy picture in praise and thanksgiving to God, seeking your intercession with Jesus, your son, for all the needs of our lives today. We celebrate your holy motherhood as we proclaim Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer.
  
  You answered when called to be mother of our Lord. Obtain for us the grace to be alive to our baptismal call and especially to embrace the Gospel of life and to respect all life on earth.
  
  You wondered as your Son grew in wisdom, knowledge, and grace.
  
  Intercede for us so that we may welcome the Word of God in our lives and be bearers of the good news to everyone.
  
  You delighted as your Son healed the sick.
  
  Intercede for our sick that they may receive good health and that they in their turn may be healers to others.
  
  You enjoyed peace as your Son comforted the afflicted.
  
  Intercede for all who suffer so that they may know that we carry their burdens with them and in this way we keep the law of Christ.
  
  You rejoiced as your Son forgave sins.
  
  Obtain for us the forgiveness of our sins and lead us to unbind others and set them free.
  
  You suffered at the wounds your Son endured for our salvation.
  
  Help us to bind up the broken-hearted and to give hope to the downtrodden.
  
  You exulted in your Son’s resurrection.
  
  Obtain for us the grace to persevere in His way all the days of our life and be granted a place in heaven.
  
  You are the first of all the disciples and saints. We trust in your motherly love and care.
  
  Obtain for us all the graces we need to fulfill God’s plan each day in our lives. Amen.
- Novena to OMPH
  A novena is a traditional Catholic prayer that continues for nine days and is intended to ask for a particular favor or blessing—or to give thanks for blessings received.
  
  The novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help is prayed weekly around the world. To make the novena, pray the three prayers below (each followed by three Hail Marys) for nine consecutive days.
  
  June 27 is Mary’s feast day under the title Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and every year we begin a special novena to her around that time. Of course, Mary is always listening, so the novena can be prayed at any time of year.
  
  First Novena Prayer
  Behold at your feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, a wretched sinner who has recourse to you and conﬁdes in you. O Mother of Mercy, have pity on me. I hear you 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 your hand to a miserable fallen creature who recommends himself to you and who devotes himself to your service forever.
  
  I bless and thank Almighty God, Who in His mercy has given me this conﬁdence in you, which I hold to be a pledge of my eternal salvation. It is true, dearest Mother, that in the past I have miserably fallen into sin because I had not recourse to you. I know that with your help I shall conquer. I know too that you will assist me if I recommend myself to you, but I fear, dear Mother, that in time of danger I may neglect to call on you and thus lose my soul.
  
  This grace, then, I ask of you, and this I beg with all the fervor of my soul, that in all the attacks of hell I may ever have recourse to you. O Mary, help me! O Mother of Perpetual Help, never suffer me to lose my God. Amen.
  
  Pray three Hail Marys.
  
  Second Novena Prayer
  O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O purest Mary! O sweetest Mary! Let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on you, for in all my temptations, in all my needs, I shall never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary! Mary!
  
  O what consolation, what sweetness, what conﬁdence, what emotion ﬁlls my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you. I thank the Lord for having given you, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you, Mother of Perpetual Help.
  
  Pray three Hail Marys.
  
  Third Novena Prayer
  O Mother of Perpetual Help, you are the dispenser of all the gifts which God grants to us miserable sinners, and for this end He has made you so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful in order that you may help us in our misery.
  
  You are the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to you. Come to my aid, dearest Mother, for I recommend myself to you. In your hands I place my eternal salvation and to you I entrust my soul. Count me among your most devoted servants; take me under your protection, and it is enough for me.
  
  For if you protect me, dear Mother, I fear nothing: not from my sins because you will obtain for me the pardon of them, nor from the devils because you are more powerful than all hell together, nor even from Jesus, my Judge, because by one prayer from you, He will be appeased.
  
  But one thing I fear—that in the hour of temptation I may through negligence fail to have recourse to you and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me, therefore, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace to have recourse to you, O Mother of Perpetual Help.
  
  Pray three Hail Marys.
Praying with the Icon

A Monthly video series to OMPH
- Making Mary Known
  
  WITH THE ICON OF OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP
  
  In his Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) Pope Francis states that when we find something that is good or beautiful or compelling—whether it is a movie, a work of art, a book, or a person—we don’t keep it to ourselves. Rather, we should be filled with a missionary fervor to share it. This is one of ways we can cultivate joy, bathing people as it were in those things that are suggestive of God, because whatever is good, whatever is beautiful, whatever is true, reflects God. This principle applies first and foremost to our experience of Jesus Christ risen from the dead. We want, with a reckless abandon, to give this supremely good news away. This energy, this compulsion— “woe to me if I do not evangelize”—is, for Pope Francis, the beating heart of the church.
  
  Such is case also with the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. In 1866, this beautiful icon was given to the Redemptorists by Pope Pius IX as of way of helping them in their mission of evangelizing the poor and most abandoned. Aware that this growing Congregation was about to begin a period of growth that would carry them throughout the world, the Pope commissioned them to make the icon known and proclaim, as had their founder, the glories of Mary, telling them: “Make her known throughout the world.” Filled with a missionary fervor to share it, the Redemptorists made the icon a missionary, a painted gospel, proclaiming through its color, symbols and figures, the abundance of God’s Redemption.
  
  For over 150 years, the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual has been at the service of the Redemptorists in their mission of evangelization. In the five continents of the world, they have preached about her on their missions and at weekly novenas, sung songs in her honor, carried her in procession, and enshrined her in countless parishes where she was once unknown. More recently, they have extended their mission of “making her known” through social networks and web pages. All this explains her presence in so many churches and homes in 78 countries throughout the world, not to mention the splendid basilicas, sanctuaries, shrines, and welcome centers erected in her honor.
  
  It is not hard to believe that in some areas in Asia and South America there is a hardly a home that does not have a picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Her popularity has bestowed upon her honorary titles like: “The Virgin of the Miracle” (Haiti), “The Missionary Virgin,” or “The Star of the New Evangelization” (Mexico). She is a “global Madonna,” who draws not only Christians but Hindus and Muslims as well. A glance at any Diocesan Directory is sufficient proof that Her name appears all over the world – Vancouver, Kansas City, New York, Boston, Madrid, Cape Town, Mumbai (Bombay), the sanctuary in Bussolengo (near Verona, Italy) and the parishes of Perpetual Help in the poor areas of Montevideo, Uruguay and Lima, Peru. She is a “global Madonna” because popular devotion has made her so; everywhere in the world people are adopting her as “their Perpetual Help.” No doubt, there are other pictures of our Blessed Mother more widely diffused regions, like the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. And from an artistic point of view, the icon does not figure among the famous. But taking the Christian world as a whole, it may safely be said that of all the images of Mary, the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is the most widely circulated.
  
  By giving us the Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Pope Pius IX entrusted us with devotion to Mary, the first to be redeemed. With the help of this icon, Redemptorists remind themselves and those to whom they are sent that redemption consists in the close, tender, passionate relationship with Jesus Christ. In short, the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is a letter “written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God (2 Cor 3:2-3). She is a letter for all of us, whether we are learned or not, saying to each one who prays before her what the apostle Paul said to his followers in Corinth: “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.”