Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Source: http://www.divinemercypictures.com
Prayer with Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Mother of Perpetual Help, with the greatest confidence we come before your holy picture to be inspired by the example of your life.
We think of you at that moment when, full of faith and trust, you accepted God’s call to be the mother of his Son.
Help us, your children, to accept with joy our own calling in life.
When you learned that your cousin Elizabeth was in need you immediately went to serve her and offer your help.
Help us, like you, to be concerned for others. We think of you, Mother, at the foot of the cross.
Your heart must have bled to see your Son in agony. But your joy was great when he rose from the dead, victorious over the powers of evil.
Mother of Sorrows, help us through the trials and disappointments of life.
Help us not to lose heart. May we share with you and your Son the joy of having courageously faced up to all the challenges of life. Amen.
Thanksgiving Prayer
O Mother of Perpetual Help, with grateful hearts we join you in thanking God for all the wonderful things he has done for us, especially for giving us Jesus, your Son, as our Redeemer.
O God, our Creator, we thank you for the gift of life and all the gifts of nature: our senses and faculties, our talents and abilities.
We thank you for creating us in your image and likeness and for giving us this earth to use and develop, to respect and cherish.
Despite our failures, you continue to show your love for us today by increasing the life of your Spirit in us at the Eucharistic table.
Finally, we thank you, loving Father, for giving us Mary, the Mother of your Son, to be our Mother of Perpetual Help.
We are grateful for all the favours we have received through her intercession.
We pray that those past favours may inspire us to greater confidence in your loving mercy and to seek the aid of our Mother of Perpetual Help. Amen.
Pope Francis’ Prayer for Jubilee Year of Mercy
Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whosoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved.
Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money; the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things; made Peter weep after his betrayal, and assured Paradise to the repentant thief.
Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman: “If you knew the gift of God!”
You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified.
You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven by God.
Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church; with renewed enthusiasm, it may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind.
We ask this through the intersession of Mary, Mother of Mercy, you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
