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Novena to Our Lady of Fatima

Day 3

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 3: Pray the Rosary daily

At every apparition Our Lady asked that the Rosary be prayed each day for peace and the conversion of sinners. She called herself the Lady of the Rosary and promised that through this prayer great graces would be granted to the world. She placed this simple, powerful prayer into the hands of children, and through them into the hands of the whole world, that the meditation of her Son's mysteries might heal a wounded age.

O Lady of the Rosary, who asked the children to pray it every day, place this prayer firmly in my hands. Teach me to take up the beads with faith and love, and through the mysteries of your Son to obtain peace for the world and mercy for sinners. Amen.

Today's intention:

For the grace to pray the Rosary daily with faith and love.

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.

About this prayer

A nine-day novena to Our Lady of Fatima, who appeared to three shepherd children in 1917 calling the world to prayer, penance, and the Rosary.

History

In 1917, at Fatima in Portugal, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared six times to three shepherd children, Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta. She called the world to pray the Rosary daily, to do penance for sinners, and to consecrate itself to her Immaculate Heart, confirming her message with the great miracle of the sun on 13 October. Her appeals to prayer and reparation remain as urgent today as a century ago. This novena entrusts our needs and the conversion of the world to her Immaculate Heart.

How to pray it

Pray once each day for nine consecutive days. Begin with the Sign of the Cross and the opening prayer, prayerfully read the meditation and offer the day's intention, then conclude with an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be, and the closing prayer.

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