Mystical Roses
Our Lady of Czestochowa
Jasna Gora Poland
Novena to Our Lady of Czestochowa
O Almighty and merciful God!
You gave the Polish Nation a wondrous help and defence
In the most holy Virgin Mary and you honoured her sacred image
At Jasna Gora with remarkable veneration of the faithful.
Grant in your mercy that, under her protection,
We may struggle confidently throughout our lives and at the moment of death
Be victorious over our enemy.
We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen
Lady of Jasna Gora, our Mother, Queen of the Polish Nation!
Trusting in your maternal goodness and powerful intercession with your Son,
We place before you our humble prayers and petitions.
TO you we commend all our needs, in particular...
(mention a personal petition)
Our families and all children of the Polish Nation whether in their native land or elsewhere in the world.
For your presence and intercession at the miraculous shrine at Jasna Gora and for the countless graces obtained for us in the past six centuries-we thank you. O Lady of Czestochowa our Mother.
For your gracious reign over our Nation, for your powerful help throughout our history, especially in the difficult periods of bondage and suffering-we thank you. O Lady of Czestochowa our Mother.
For our negligence in the faith and for the religious indifference through which we have strayed so often from God, unmindful of his presence and love.- we ask you, Mother intercede for us.
For our conduct which has not always been in accord with our holy faith nor with the dignity of a child of the Polish Nation-for sins against life for drunkenness, selfishness, carelessness, envy, social discord and tax morals.-we ask you, Mother, intercede for us.
For being so preoccupied with ourselves that we did not see the needs of our brothers and sisters-the hungry, the homeless, the sick and the lonely,-we ask you, Mother intercede for us.
O Mother with the Divine Infant in your arms through your sacred image in Czestochowa you remind us of the constant presence of your Son, and of your own motherly solicitude as a source of strength and courage in our daily trials, difficulties, and labours,-we praise you and we love you!
O Queen whose image bears the scars of enemy attacks, you are to us a sign of hope, unity and victory,-we praise you and we love you!
O Virgin Helper, you aid us in overcoming all evil and weakness, -we praise you and we love you!
When we are oppressed by doubts and temptations against faith,-be our help and protection.
When we feel lonely, abandoned and threatened -be our help and protection.
When we are in danger of yielding to our evil habits and sins-be our help and protection.
That you may strengthen us in faith and obtain for us the power to renew our lives in the spirit of God's commandments and the Gospels of the Christ. We beseech you O lady of Jasna Gora, our Mother.
That you may continue to reign in our lives - on the personal, family, social and national levels. We beseech you O lady of Jasna Gora, our Mother.
That you may obtain for us from your Son the special grace that we implore in this novena. We beseech you O lady of Jasna Gora our Mother.
Our Lady of Czestochowa Daily Prayer
