As we continue our nine days of prayer, please leave your supportive messages for the folks in Newtown and Sandy Hook in the comments section here on the blog. They’ll be seeing them, I assure you. Each night as we pray for the entire community, we’ll lift up in a special way different groups within that population. Thanks for joining in. God Bless you and your loved ones.
Prayer
Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our troubles, our sufferings deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.
DAY THREE
“You are all fair, O Mary, and there is in you no stain of original sin.” O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. O brilliant star of sanctity, as on that lovely day, upon a rough rock in Lourdes you spoke to the child Bernadette and a fountain broke from the plain earth and miracles happened and the great shrine of Lourdes began, so now I beseech you to hear our fervent prayer and do, we beseech you, grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek.
We gather tonight and lift up in a special way all of the children and staff at the school who survived, but whose lives are forever changed. We ask your intercession with your beloved Son, that He assuage any survivor guilt and ease the anguish of memories so fresh. We ask for peace in their homes and renewed trust in their hearts.
O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm#ixzz2F9iE6sGz
My heart is with you all. Though I could never fully understand the depth of your sorrow, know that I suffer with you as a brother.
To the families of those precious ones who were killed, and to the Newtown community, please know that I am praying for you, praying this beautiful Novena for you, and thinking about all of you, though I do not know you. I hope it is of some comfort to know that there are many, many people praying for you. May God bless you all.
So glad so many are praying for you. Such joyful innocent lives violently ended causing unimaginable pain to family and friends. Some may feel tempted to lose hope, abandon faith in the Good God. Don’t give up. Don’t give in to despair. We will keep praying for you all.
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