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Day Eight of Our Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes: February 9th

With Pádraig Corcoran at the Grotto in Lourdes

Friends, good morning. We are delighted to be able to pray with you from Our Lady’s Grotto in Lourdes, France. It is wonderful to be back in Lourdes once more and to bring your prayers and petitions to the Shrine here in France.

Join us over the next few days ahead of Our Lady’s Feast Day for prayer, mass and we hope that you can experience through these days a sense of the peace, hope and healing message of Lourdes.

Today’s prayer is with Pádraig Corcoran, director of the Oblate Youth Service who, each year on our pilgrimage, do such an amazing job of accompanying our guests during their time of pilgrimage in Lourdes.

Novena Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes

O Mary, who appeared to Bernadette in the hollow of a rock, in the depths of winter, you brought the warmth of a presence, the friendship of a smile, the light of  grace.

In the depths of our lives so often insecure in the hollow of the world where there is evil, bring us hope and restore our confidence.

You who said to Bernadette, I am the Immaculate Conception, come to help us sinners. Give us the courage of conversion, the humility of penance and the perseverance of prayer.

We entrust to you who are our Lady of Good Help, all whom we carry in our hearts and our prayer, especially those who are sick and all those who have lost hope. You who guided Bernadette to discover the stream,

Guide us to your Son who is the source of eternal life who gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, which helps us to call God, our Father.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Saint Bernadette, pray for us.

You may send in your prayer intentions to us – and, this year, for the first time since Covid began, a small team of our pilgrimage leadership have traveled to Lourdes and will take your petitions to Our Lady’s Shrine. Please send them by email to lourdes@oblates.ie.