Dearest Mama Mary,

Tomorrow as we begin again on our 54-day Rosary Novena, I want to thank you for all the blessings I have received. I thank you for the visa that was granted to me in a short period of time, for my safe journey to UK and back to the Philippines, for experiencing a new culture, for seeing new places, for meeting Dotty, JR and Luke, for having been in Anfield and to have watched the L.F.C players right in front my eyes, for making my family here in the Philippines all safe when I was there and most of all for being with the love of my life, Anthony, who made it so very special. It is one of the happiest moments in my life. Again, thank you so much.

My prayer intentions will still be the same Mama Mary. I pray that you will be able to fill my heart with hope and strength to be better. I am lately feeling depress. I worry about so many things. Family, finances, future, and my relationship with my boyfriend. Sometimes I don't know what to do anymore. I thank you so much for being with me and never leaving me no matter how bad and desperate I am. But Mama Mary, I am praying for my boyfriend, for him to be able to overcome the struggle in his life right now. You know it all Mama Mary. I know once he got that blessings from You and Lord God, he will share it to others and will start a new life and will take care every bit of it. 

Dearest Mother, I love him so much... until my prayers are answered, I will never give up on him or my faith to you. In Jesus Name and You, I want him now, tomorrow and forevermore. Please work with him, strengthen him, encourage him and restore him. Whatever it will take, please keep us always united in love and togetherness. I know we belong together but just please help me to be more patient and considerate. Please save us. Mama Mary, please give us a chance to continue on the journey that we have started. Please give us the vision to be more positive. We love you! 

I am also praying for good health in all our family and loveones. Especially for my brother Adam in his heart disease, for John and for Dotty. For a safe journey of all our buses, to be able to pay our debts, for my sister Nina to be able to graduate this March and also for me to be able to study again and hope I could work abroad as I know I can do better and help better. May my mum be so happy on her 60th birthday with all of us there and our relatives. Mama Mary please grant the desires of her heart as I know she just want the best for us and she loves us so much her children. May we continue to love each other with Anthony to whom my family have love also. 

Jesus said that He shall provide for all our needs according to His riches in glory. Please give us the faith so that we will wait on Jesus, because He is always on time. Please help me and everyone else praying to you Mama Mary, to experience your goodness, love and mercy. That Jesus will provide us with good health, a heart full of love, prosperity and financial blessings.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for hearing my prayers and I know that you will grant me this most precious request.

Mother of Perpetual Help, we thank God for all the blessings received through your intercession. We promise to love you and to do all we can to bring others to you. Mother Mary, lead me to Jesus. 

Amen. 

Your faithful follower,

PRAYER FOR FINANCIAL BLESSING

Great God of love and mercy, you know not only the depths of our hearts but also every situation and turn of circumstance in our lives. You know your children who are struggling with financial difficulties, inability to pay their debts, unemployment, frustration for not being able to provide for their families, and painful uncertainty as to what tomorrow might bring. You know their tears and their prayers and none of them is forgotten before you. 

For all these people I pray, and especially for those who read this prayer and feel it is for them. Bless them, Father, bless them with prosperity and abundance, so that their heart can rejoice and be grateful. Bless them with a miracle, so that they can praise you wholeheartedly and tell everybody what an amazing God you are. Take the burden of worries and struggles off their shoulders, so that they can enjoy and share the full blessing of having a perfect Father like you. 

Lord God, you know each and every one of those whom I am praying for. They are your children and you love them dearly. Provide for them and for their families. Provide in wonderful ways, for you are a God of miracles and the source of all goodness. Bring before them the right people and the right circumstances so that they can get the help they need and make best use of the gifts you have given them. Bless them generously, for out of your infinite richness you give and your treasures never end. 

Lord God, look upon your children who are struggling with financial problems, look upon the person who is reading this prayer right now, and provide for their every need. Work in their lives in ways full of power, in ways that reveal your glory and love. For wherever you outpour your blessings, there is fulfillment and every good work is made complete. 

Do not let your beloved struggle for too long, for you delight in being good and giving good gifts to those who seek you. Do not let anyone in need walk away from this prayer without fruit, without a positive change in their lives. Let their voices be heard. Let their faith be rewarded. Let their tears of frustration and sorrow turn to tears of gratitude and joy. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

AMEN.

Prayer to Heal a Relationship

"Almighty God, hear this prayer."

Dear Lord,

I offer you this prayer, to help me with my current relationship situation. Please take away all the pain and hurt in my heart. Fill it with love, joy, patience, and understanding. Bless me and my partner, so that we may never surrender to whatever challenges that come our way. Fill our hearts with love for each other, and may you make each one of us realize each other's worth. Please touch the heart of my partner,fill it with much love for me. Make our complicated relationship become uncomplicated. I seek for your mercy and blessing that you may allow us to spend the rest of our lives with each other. Please make this feeling mutual for both of us. Lead us not into temptations. Guide us wherever we go. Always put us in each other's heart and mind. Thank you Lord for hearing my prayer. I love you. Amen.

The Miraculous 54-Day Rosary Novena

Above: The Lourdes grotto in the garden of the covent at Nevers in France, where St

Bernadette lived and where her incorrupt

body is on display in the chapel.

The Miraculous 54-Day Rosary Novena

On March 3, 1884, Our Lady of Pompeii appeared before the gravely ill daughter of an Italian military officer and, through her, gave the world a new devotion of tremendous power.

For over a year, Fortuna Agrelli had been in great distress and even near-death. Indeed, her case had been given up as hopeless by the most celebrated physicians. In desperation, on February 16, the afflicted girl and her family began a novena of Rosaries.

Two weeks later, the Queen of the Holy Rosary appeared before Fortuna one evening. Sitting upon a high throne, surrounded by luminous figures, Our Lady was holding the Divine Child on Her lap and a Rosary in Her hand. Both were arrayed in golden garments and were accompanied by Sts. Dominic and Catherine of Siena.

“Child, your faith has pleased Me.” Our Lady said to Fortuna, “Whoever desires to obtain favors from Me should make three novenas in petition of the prayers of the Rosary, and three novenas in thanksgiving.”

Obedient to Our Lady’s command, Fortuna and her family completed the six novenas whereupon the young girl was restored to perfect health and her family showered with many blessings.


It is done in the following way: You say the Rosary for 54 consecutive days in a row.

The first 27 days are for the petition and the next 27 days are for thanksgiving. Regardless of anything that has happened, you still go ahead and thank Our Lady for the outcome.

Making this novena is a good way to keep up your motivation for saying the rosary on a daily basis.


The 15 Promises of Mary to those who recite the Rosary

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.

3. The rosary shall be powerful armour against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctity themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly; applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His Justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9 I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.

10. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination.

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan)



Information about the Rosary


Our Lady has 117 titles. She selected this title at Fatima: I am the Lady of the Rosary.


St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying

is - Pray the Rosary.


St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome Italy on just the Hail Mary.


St. John Vianney, patron of priests, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.


The rosary is the scourge of the devil" - Pope Adrian VI

"The rosary is a treasure of graces" - Pope Paul V.


Padre Pio the stigmatic priest said: “The rosary is THE WEAPON"


Pope Leo X111 wrote 9 encyclicals on the rosary.


Pope John XXIII spoke 38 times about our Lady and the Rosary. He prayed 15 decades daily.


St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote: The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."


If you wish to obtain a favour: Pray The 54-day ROSARY NOVENA. Pray 3 nine day rosary novenas - 27 days of petition; Pray 3 nine day rosary novenas - 27 days of thanksgiving.

Our Lady

Our Lady, a set on Flickr.

Pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal

Pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, a set on Flickr.

December 6-8, 2011

Feast Days of Our Lady

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary

"One day through the Rosary and the Scapular I will save the world"

Chronological list of Feast Days of Mary

January 1 - Solemnity of Mary Mother of God

January 8 - Our Lady of Prompt Succor

February 2 - Presentation of the Lord

February 11- Our Lady of Lourdes

March 25 - Annunciation

The Month of Mary is May

The Feast of the Immaculate Heart is the Saturday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost.

May 31 - Visitation

June 27 - Our Mother of Perpetual Help

July 16 - Our Lady of Mount Carmel

August 5 - Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major

August 15 - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

August 22 - The Queenship of Mary

September 8 - The Birth of Mary

September 12 - The Most Holy Name of Mary

September 15 - Our Lady of Sorrows

September 24 - Our Lady of Walsingham, England

October ~ The Month of the Rosary

October 7 - Our Lady of the Rosary

November 21 - Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

December 8 - Immaculate Conception

December 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe

December 25 - Christmas

1st Sunday after Christmas - Holy Family

The First Saturday of each Month is also dedicated to Marian Devotions.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

THE ICON, ITS HISTORY, FAVORS, AND SHRINES  


"Make Her Known Throughout the World."


Among Christians, the title "Perpetual Help" is one of the better known titles of the Mother of God, especially among the most needy and afflicted who feel the need for love and protection. The original picture is an Eastern Icon that represents the Virgin of the Passion, painted to inspire hope and prayer. Its spiritual message far surpasses its artistic beauty. An icon is much more than the representation of a person or a historical event. The Icon of Perpetual Help raises our consciousness of the mysteries of the Redemption in Christ and of the intercession of Mary in favor of those who follow Christ, here in the arms of His Holy Mother.


Only with an attitude of faith and prayer can one admire this icon. The expression on mary's face is that of a mother who knows pain, and yet, extends her help with serenity and tenderness, as she invites us to obey the Will of God, even when we find it in suffering and the cross, and to offer our lives in service to Him and our neighbor as He did unto death.


To learn about the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, click the links below, and pray to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Perpetual Help:

CONTENTS:

HISTORY, TRADITION, AND LORE
THE MESSAGE OF THE ICON
THE UNIVERSALITY OF THIS DEVOTION AND THE SHRINES
FAVORS AND GRACES
LITANY OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
TRADITIONAL PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP: NOVENA 2
PRAYER OF CONFIDENCE AND THE CHAPLET OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
CONSECRATION TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HLEP WITH TRADITINAL PRAYER