Most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most
Adorable Trinity from all eternity to be the most pure Mother
of Jesus. Permit me your humble and devoted client, to remind
you of the joy you received at the instance of the most saved
incarnation of our Divine Lord, and during the nine months you
carried Him in your chaste womb. I wish most sincerely that
I could renew, or even increase that joy by the fervour of my
prayers.
O Tender Mother of the afflicted, grant me under my present
necessities that special protection you have promised to those
who devoutly commemorate this ineffable joy. Relying on the
infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting that those who
ask should receive and penetrated with confidence in your powerful
prayers. I most humbly entreat you to intercede for me. I beg
you to obtain for me the favours which I petition form in this
Novena, if it be the Holy will of God to grant them, and if
not, to ask for me whatever graces I most stand in need of ........Here
make your request !!!.
I desire by this novena which I now offer in your honour, to
prove the lively confidence I have in your intercession. Accept
it I beseech you, in honour of that supernatural love and joy,
with which your Immaculate Heart replenished during the abode
of your Divine Son in your womb, in veneration of which, I offer
you the sentiments of my heart.
Hail Mary, full of grace,....…….9
times.
O Mother of God, accept these salutations in union with the
respect and veneration with which the angel Gabriel first hailed
you “Full of grace” I wish most sincerely that they
may become so many gems in the crown of your celestial glory,
which will increase in Brightness to the end of the world. I
beseech you, O comfortress of the afflicted, by the joy you
received, when the word was made Flesh, to obtain for me the
favours and graces which I have now implored through your powerful
intercession. From this end I offer you all the good works which
have ever been performed in your honour. I most humbly entreat
you, for the love of the amiable heart of Jesus, with which
yours was ever so inflamed, to hear my humble prayers and obtain
my requests. Amen.