Novenas
Nine days of intercession through the Lady of All Nations: for all peoples, the Church, priests and religious, love of the sacraments, families, the youth, respect for life, world leaders, and our own needs.
From the Community’s prayer book.
Begin with the opening prayer.
Pray the prayer for that day.
Day 1 — For all people of all nations · Day 2 — For the Church · Day 3 — For all priests and religious · Day 4 — For the gift of love for the sacraments · Day 5 — For all families and homes · Day 6 — For the youth · Day 7 — That people may respect life · Day 8 — For world leaders and world peace · Day 9 — For our needs
End with the concluding prayer.
The booklet follows the novena with a litany to Mary, Mother of All Nations.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our advocate. Amen.
O Lady of All Nations, we commend to you all people, all nations of the earth. We entrust to your care all that we are and all that we do. Take us by your loving hand and guide us to the Cross of Jesus. Teach us to look at the Cross of Jesus, the sign of compassion. Touch our minds, touch our hearts, and show us how to reach out to one another in truth, love, righteousness and unity. Bring light to the present darkness, we beg you. Ask the Holy Spirit to renew us in Jesus, King of All Nations.
O Lady of All Nations, we commend to you the Church. Watch and guard her always. We pray that the Church be one community, faithful to Jesus Christ and His teachings. Protect her from attacks coming from outside, but most especially from dangers within. Guard her against heretical teachings. Instil in us a great love for the Faith and loyalty to the Sacred Magisterium. Preserve us from apostasy. O Lady of All Nations, strengthen the Church.
O Lady of All Nations, we lift up to you all priests and religious. Guide the Pope and all bishops as they lead the Church. Let them hold fast to the true teaching of Jesus Christ as they instruct the faithful. Sustain all priests and religious as they minister to God’s people. Provide for their needs; protect them from harm, especially from the deception of Satan. O Lady of All Nations, be with us as we pray.
“O Almighty, Eternal God, our Father, look upon the face of Your Son, and for love of Him who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity on Your priests. Remember, O most compassionate God, that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation, which is in them by the imposition of the bishop’s hands. Keep them very close to You, lest the enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.
O Jesus, our Eternal Priest, I pray for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests labouring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted priests; for Your young priests; and for those in purgatory. But above all I commend to You the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me; the priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assist, and who give me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me about You and Your Holy Scriptures; the priests who helped and encouraged me to accept You as my Lord and Saviour; and all the priests You sent to touch my life and the lives of my loved ones.” (Richard Cardinal Cushing)
O Lady of All Nations, send us holy priests!
O Lady of All Nations, instil in us love for the sacraments. Grant us the grace to go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation when we fall into sin, for this brings peace to the soul. Develop in us a hunger for the Holy Eucharist, for Jesus said: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world” (John 6:51). “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day… Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him” (John 6:53–54, 56).
May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.
O Lady of All Nations, we commend to you our families and homes. May Jesus be the centre of our family life. Grant that husbands and wives serve each other in love and humility. Help them to raise their children “with the training and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). Help children obey their parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother” — this is the first commandment with a promise — “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on earth” (Ephesians 6:1–3). May our homes be places where strength, peace and love abound.
O Lady of All Nations, we entrust the youth to your care. Hold them in the cradle of your arms. Do not allow them to be misled by the spirit of the world. Bless them; teach them to pray. Lead them to Jesus, the source of peace and joy.
O Lady of All Nations, we implore you to put an end to the evil of abortion and euthanasia. Stop the culture of death, we beg you. Instil in your people respect for life, from its beginning to its end. O Lady of All Nations, our Mother, our Queen, go to your Son, Jesus, King of All Nations, and intercede and plead with Him on our behalf: “Speak to the King for us; save us from death” (Esther 4:8). O Lady of All Nations, bring light to the present darkness.
O Lady of All Nations, we lift up to you all world leaders. Let them govern their nations with fairness, justice and compassion. May they look to the Cross of Jesus, for this alone can bring peace and tranquillity. Jesus, Prince of Peace, grant us peace.
O Lady of All Nations, we come to you with our needs. You know our needs, our trials and our pains. In your mercy, provide for our material needs, help the sick and the infirm among us, but most of all sustain us in our spiritual needs. Mother, help us bear the crosses of life in union with your Son.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. (Mention your personal requests.) O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee! O Lady of All Nations, pray for us.
Lady of All Nations, we thank you for your love and care. May the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary usher in the reign of Jesus, King of All Nations. Amen.
Lord, have mercy. — Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. — Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. — Lord, have mercy.
God our Father in heaven, — have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, — have mercy on us. God the Holy Spirit, — have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, — have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Holy Mother of God, Most honoured of virgins, Chosen daughter of the Father, Mother of Christ the King, Glory of the Holy Spirit, Virgin daughter of Zion, Virgin poor and humble, Virgin gentle and obedient, Handmaid of the Lord, Mother of the Lord, Helper of the Redeemer, Full of grace, Fountain of beauty, Model of virtue, Finest fruit of the redemption, Perfect disciple of Christ, Untarnished image of the Church, Woman transformed, Woman clothed with the sun, Woman crowned with stars, Gentle Lady, Gracious Lady, Our Lady, Joy of Israel, Splendour of the Church, Pride of the human race, Advocate of grace, Minister of holiness, Mother of All Nations, Champion of God’s people, Queen of love, Queen of mercy, Queen of peace, Queen of angels, Queen of patriarchs and prophets, Queen of apostles and martyrs, Queen of confessors and virgins, Queen of all saints, Queen conceived without original sin, Queen assumed into heaven, Queen of all the earth, Queen of heaven, Queen of the universe, — pray for us.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world: spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world: hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world: have mercy on us.
