Today begins the Miraculous Medal novena which is nine days of prayer to end up on the feast day of November 25th (though it is also celebrated on November 27th, the anniversary of an important apparition).
It seems so fitting to me that I should be going out today with the first batch of “holy” scarves for the homeless and needy. You might have seen my post about this new part of my ministry: “Warming the homeless with LOVE, scarves, and sacramentals.”
Please pray along with me in this beautiful novena. I am requesting that in this novena all throughout the nine days which is to Jesus through Mary and Her blessed sacramental, the Miraculous Medal, that you ask for special help for the homeless and unfortunate and if you could, please keep my ministry in your prayers as well. Of course, we don’t want to forget to include France in this novena. The Blessed Mother Herself mentioned France to St. Catherine in one of Her apparitions to her when explaining the Miraculous medal.
Please add all of your own intentions in this powerful novena. Thank you in advance for praying for the homeless, for my encounters with them when I gift them with the “holy” scarves, that Our Lord would really speak to their hearts, and for whatever God’s holy Will might be in this regard.
Here is the novena prayer (but please continue to read the post below the prayers because there is more):
Novena of the Miraculous Medal
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit. Amen.
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. And You
shall renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray.
O 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. Amen.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have
recourse to you. (3 times.)
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 may glorify this mystery by word and work.
Amen.
Memorare
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
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 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
the Queen of angels and of men. Amen.
An Act of Consecration to Our Lady of the Miraculous
Medal
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 one
of us a sure sign of your affection for us and a
constant reminder of our duties toward you. Ever while
wearing it, may 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.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have
recourse to you. (3 times.)
[from EWTN and appears in my book]
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Novena of the Miraculous Medal (a shorter novena)
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 form your petition)
You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity.
Obtain for us then 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 the Queen of angels and of men.
Amen.
https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/MiraculousMedal.htm
You can also check this out at one of the popular Miraculous Medal Shrines (in Philadelphia) to follow along with what they are doing for the novena if you’d like.
THANK YOU again from the bottom of my heart for praying along with me this beautiful Miraculous Medal novena. I pray that Mother Mary may grant you many graces. I do hope that you are (or will) wear a blessed Miraculous Medal.
O, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. (the prayer that the Blessed Mother asked to be printed on each Miraculous Medal).
You can read the whole history of the Miraculous Medal, the Blessed Mother, and St. Catherine Laboure in my book: The Miraculous Medal, Stories, Prayers, and Devotions.
Saint Maximilian was someone who had a beautiful devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and would hand out blessed Miraculous Medals often also saw the medal as a means of expressing the Total Consecration of his followers to the Blessed Mother and was a means of safeguarding it. He added his own prayer to be said by those in the Militia Immaculatae (Knights of the Immaculate) group that he formed:
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us
who have recourse to thee, and for all who do
not have recourse to thee, especially the enemies
of the Church and those recommended to thee.
Saint Catherine Laboure would pray this way:
“When I go to the Chapel I place myself before the good God and I say to Him: ‘Lord, here I am, give me what you will.’ If he gives me something, I am very pleased and I thank Him. If He gives me nothing, I still thank Him because I do not deserve anything. And then again, I tell Him all that passes through my mind; I recount my pains and my joys and…I listen. If you listen to Him, He will speak to you also, because with the good God it is necessary to speak and to listen. He will always speak to you if you go to Him simply and sincerely.”
Click on image to see more about the medals.
