Marian
Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Marian prayer
A prayer of confidence in the name of Mary under her title of Perpetual Help, the Byzantine icon entrusted by Pope Pius IX to the Redemptorists in 1866. Longer devotional forms of this prayer, drawn from Saint Alphonsus Liguori, are also in use.
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary, let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on thee, for, in all my needs, in all my temptations I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary. O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul when I pronounce thy sacred name, or even only think of thee. I thank God for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely pronouncing thy name: let my love for thee prompt me ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.
When it is prayed
- wednesdays
- june-27
- novena
