Novena to Our Lady of Fatima

May 4–12

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 to Our Lady of Fatima

Opening prayer:

Our Lady of Fatima, tender Mother who came to call your children back to God, I begin this novena trusting in your maternal love. Teach me to pray, to do penance, and to console the Heart of Jesus. Through your Immaculate Heart, present my petitions to your Son and obtain for me the grace I now ask. Amen.

Read the meditation and offer the intention of the day.

Day 1: The angel's call to prayer

Before Mary came, an angel appeared to the children at Fatima, calling himself the Angel of Peace and teaching them to adore God and to pray for sinners. He bowed to the ground with them and gave them words of adoration and reparation to repeat. He prepared their hearts by leading them deep into prayer, showing that adoration is the soil in which every grace grows and the first response of the soul before its God.

O God, whom the angel taught the children to adore, draw my heart into humble worship. Like the little shepherds, let me bow before You with reverence and pray for sinners, that adoration may become the soil where Your grace takes root in me. Amen.

Today's intention:

For the grace to adore God with a humble and recollected heart.

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:

Our Lady of Fatima, who promised that your Immaculate Heart would triumph, keep me faithful to your requests of prayer and penance. Help me to pray the Rosary each day and to offer my sufferings for the conversion of sinners. May I one day rejoice with you and the shepherd children in the glory of heaven. 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.