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O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to you. I, (name), a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property.
The earliest existing novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help was a booklet already in its third edition, and was published by the Bishop of Madrid, José María Cos y Macho, who granted his imprimatur in 1899. These were followed by re-printing in later years.
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brazil A booklet of the novena to Sweetest Name of Mary, in Bikol and printed in Binondo, Manila dated 1867. A novena (from Latin: novem, "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. [1]
[3] The entry in the Roman Martyrology about the feast speaks of it in the following terms: The Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a day on which the inexpressible love of the Mother of God for her Holy Child is recalled, and the eyes of the faithful are directed to the figure of the Mother of the Redeemer, for them to invoke with devotion. [9]
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O Mary, by thy pure and Immaculate Conception, make my body pure and my soul holy. [7]
The refrain "Rejoice, much-sorrowing Mother of God, turn our sorrows into joy and soften the hearts of evil men!" is also used. [18] In the Western Rite Vicariate of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on the Friday before Palm Sunday and as a separate feast on September 15. [19]
A religious processional banner from the Holy House of Mercy in Lisbon (1784) depicting the Virgin of Mercy; the first verse of the hymn is displayed below.. Sub Tuum Præsidium (Ancient Greek: Ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν; English: Under your Protection) is an ancient Christian hymn and prayer dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Rhoda Wise was born Rhoda Greer on February 22, 1888, in Cadiz, Ohio, to bricklayer Eli Greer and his wife Anna, the sixth of their eight children.When she was two years old, the Greer family moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where she was raised as a Protestant.