Novena for Any Feast of Our Lady

Day 2

10 min

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

Novena for Any Feast of Our Lady

Opening prayer:

O Mary, honored [under this title/feast], I come before you as a child before its mother. You who are full of grace and never turn away from those who run to you, look upon me with the same love with which you watched over your Son. Lead me by your hand to Jesus, and obtain for me the graces I most need. Amen.

Read the meditation and offer the intention of the day.

Day 2: Her humble fiat

When God asked everything of her, Mary answered, "Let it be done to me according to your word." In that quiet surrender the whole of salvation turned, and she teaches us that true greatness is found in saying yes to God. She did not see the whole road that her yes would open, yet she trusted the One who asked, and so she became the model of every soul that lets God's will be done in it.

O Mary, in your humble fiat you opened the door of salvation to the world. Teach me to answer God as you did, without counting the cost or demanding to see the road ahead. When His will is hard, lend me your trusting heart, that I too may say yes and let Him work in me. Amen.

Today's intention:

For the courage to say yes to God even when His will is hard.

Pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art 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.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

Closing prayer:

Most holy Virgin Mary, I thank you for hearing the prayer of these nine days. Present my petitions to your Son, and if what I ask is for the good of my soul, obtain it for me; and if it is not, grant me instead the grace to want only what God wills. Keep me always near to your maternal heart. Amen.

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.