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Leader: Mother of Perpetual Help, daily in genuine love for God and neighbor so your picture reminds us that we are to that justice and peace may flourish Radio Maria carry our cross as Jesus did. With everywhere in the human family. courage, he endured injustice, 601 Washington Street abandonment and betrayal, pain and Leader: Let us renew our Act of Alexandria, LA 71301 suffering, even a criminal’s death. Consecration All: Mary, we turn to you as our model All: United with the members of the Office 318-561-6145 in suffering and courage. You shared Confraternity of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, 1-888-408-0201 in your Son’s suffering and death. Now here and throughout the world, we consecrate Fax 318-449-9954 you share in his Resurrection. We, too, ourselves to your service. We promise to share in the cross of Christ, and renew this dedication once a month and On-Air 318-561-6191 someday, like you, we will share fully in frequently to receive the sacraments. We 1-866-333-MARY his Resurrection. Help us be patient in beg you to obtain for us the grace to imitate our suffering, and to trust in the loving your great servant, Saint Alphonsus, in his email: care of our Father in heaven. May those love for you and your Son. [email protected] suffering sickness in mind or body experience you Son’s healing power. Leader: from the first moment of her www.radiomaria.us Help us follow his example, and through existence, the Holy Spirit filled Mary with his him, with him, and in him, commend love. By his power, she became theVirgin- ourselves to the care of our heavenly Mother of God. Through the same Holy Father. Spirit, she became the perfect wife, the perfect mother. Let us imitate her generosity, Leader: Let us ask Mary to watch her openness to the Holy Spirit, and say, Our Mother of over all families. All: Come, Holy Spirit. Fill our hearts with Perpetual Help All: Mother of Perpetual Help, bless your joy and your peace, with your power our families with your tender, motherly and your love, with your constant presence Novena love. May the sacrament of Marriage within us. bring husbands and wives ever closer together that they may always be Leader: Receive the Holy Spirit. May he Join us the 1st - 9th each faithful, and love each other as Christ be with you to strengthen you, above you to loves us. Help all mothers and fathers protect you, before you to lead you, behind month at 11:50am (Central) love and cherish the children God has you to encourage you, within you to possess entrusted to them. May they always you totally. Through the prayers of our holy be models of a truly Christian life. Help patron, Saint Alphonsus, through the KJMJ KOJO KBIO all children, that they may love and intercession of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, 580 AM 91.1 FM 89.7 FM respect their parents. Inspire all people through the merits of Our Lord and Savior Alexandria, LA Lake CHarles, LA to value Christian marriage and family Jesus Christ, present in the most Blessed Natchitoches, LA life. Give us a sense of responsibility Sacrament of the altar, may the blessing of that we may do our part in making our almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, KNIR KDEI WHJM homes havens of love and peace. descend upon you and remain forever. 1360 AM 1250 AM 88.7 FM Mary, our model, help every family grow All: Amen New Iberia, LA Port Arthur, TX Anna, OH Novena in Honor only a frail child. Moved by the Holy Spirit, you deepening their faith and choosing their of accepted Jesus as the Son of the Most High, vocation in life. Our Mother of Perpetual the long-awaited Messiah. Following your Help example of faith, help us recognize Jesus in All: May your mother intercede for us, those we meet, especially the poor and the Lord. lonely, the sick and the elderly. Keep us always mindful, dear Mother, that whatever we do to Leader: Grant us continued health of mind Leader: Let us kneel as we gather the least of our brothers and sisters, we do to and body, and help the sick to regain their together to honor our Mother and our your loving Son. May his words live in our health according to your Holy will. Perpetual Help. We recall how she helped hearts and influence our lives and the lives of others. Her whole life was a lesson in those we meet. All: May your mother intercede for us, love. Lord. Leader: Let us pray to be open to God’s All: Mother of Perpetual Help today we Word. Leader: Grant eternal rest to all our face so many difficulties. Your picture deceased and to the souls of all the faithful tells us so much about you. It reminds All: Mary, woman of faith, you pondered and departed. us to reach out and help those in need. treasured the meaning of God’s words and Help us understand that our lives belong actions in your life. You generously responded All: May your mother intercede for us, to others as much as they belong to us. to his Word in faith. As we listen to God’s Lord. Mary, model of Christian love, we know Word, help us be attentive to his message. we cannot heal every ill or solve every May the Holy Spirit enlighten our understanding Leader: Let us pause now to silently problem, but with God’s grace, we intend and give us the courage to put these words present our own personal petitions to Our to do what we can. May we be true into practice. Mother of Perpetual Help. witnesses to the world that love for one another really matters. May our daily Leader: Let us stand as we present our Leader: Let us kneel as we continue our actions proclaim how fully our lives are petitions: Grant wisdom and guidance to our prayers: modeled after yours, Mother of Perpetual Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, all our bishops, Help. our priests, and all the leaders of our nation, All: Mary, humble handmaid of the Lord, state, and community. we need your example today to discover Leader: Mary, you were a woman of God’s will in our lives. You always gave God steadfast faith. Your faith in Jesus never All: May your mother intercede for us, Lord. the first place in your life. Just as you wavered. Model of all believers, pray to pondered his Word in your heart, help each the Holy Spirit for us. Help us not only to Leader: Grant peace and unity throughout of us to seek his plan in all that we do. Give accept all your Son teaches us, but to the world, especially in our homes and families. us the conviction that nothing is more put that teaching into practice. important than doing the will of our heavenly All: May your mother intercede for us, Lord. Father. May we spend each moment in All: Mother of Perpetual Help as a child, loving and pleasing him. Help us follow your Jesus ran to you for comfort and Leader: Grant that young people respond example in proclaiming, I am the servant reassurance. You did not see him as generously to the call of the Holy Spirit in of the Lord, I will what God wills, when he wills it, as he wills it, because he wills it..