![]() Obtain for us the grace never to withhold our love and understanding, not to fail in persevering prayer that the enslaving bonds of addiction may be broken and that full health and freedom may be restored to all for whom we pray. Devout servant of the Immaculate Mother of God, beg Her to crush with her heel the demons of addiction that afflicts our brothers and sisters. Maximilian, Priest of God, intercede with Christ for mercy for all who are trapped in the bonds of any addiction. Look with compassion upon all those who are now entrapped in addictions to drugs, alcohol, and other harmful behaviors and whom we now recommend to your powerful intercession:ĭear St. Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, your life of love and labor for souls was sacrificed amid the horrors of a concentration camp and hastened to its end by an injection of a deadly drug. Implore God that we, inflamed by such ardent charity, may through our living faith and our apostolic works witness Christ to others, and thus merit to join you in the blessed vision of God In your close conformity to our Divine Savior you reached such an intense degree of love that you offered your life to save a fellow prisoner. Obtain for us the grace by our lives and labors to draw many souls to Christ. Having consecrated yourself to the Immaculate Virgin Mary, you inspired countless souls to a holy life and various forms of the apostolate in order to do good to others and to spread the kingdom of God. Look down with favor upon us who devoutly confide in your intercession. Francis, inflamed by the love of God you dedicated your life to the practice of virtue and to works of the apostolate. Maximilian Kolbe, faithful follower of St. Intercede, O Mother of Hope for all who await the healing promised in the Lord’s resurrection. Intercede, O Mother of Consolation, for all who are to receive the healing of acceptance and the grace of the final journey. Intercede, O Mother Most Holy, for all who wait and hope for the healing of their bodies. We pray, in particular, for all those who are in need of physical healing. We come, therefore, with complete confidence to implore your maternal intercession. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors: and already many sufferers have obtained the cure for their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal. O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comforter of the afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings: look with mercy on me. Novena for Physical Healing to Our Lady of Lourdes May God grant you the healing you desire through His superabundant grace. You can pray them for the traditional nine days (the word “novena” comes from a Latin word that means “nine”) or you can make them “perpetual” and pray them daily. One is for physical healing, one is for healing from addiction, and one is for healing from mental sufferings. God is the Divine Physician, Who will grant us the graces of healing that we need. We can bring all of these wounds to prayer. Some interior sufferings are so great they harm our physical health. Sometimes we have physical sufferings that are so difficult they have left us interiorly wounded. Some of our wounds are interior: mental or spiritual or emotional. And conversely, my life spills over into that of others: for better and for worse. The lives of others continually spill over into mine: in what I think, say, do and achieve. Our lives are involved with one another, through innumerable interactions they are linked together. We should recall that no man is an island, entire of itself. It’s one of the greatest tragedies in life, for families in particular. Wounds that are not healed or addressed are transmitted. “We are so fragile,” a Catholic sociology professor once said, during a class I took. Our nature, wounded by Original Sin, has left a fragility in us that can only be strengthened, steeled, and fortified by Christ and the Blood He shed for us. ![]()
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