Our Lady of Guadalupe Novena - Day Three

Third Day

     When you visited Juan Diego's dying uncle Juan Bernardino, curing him and telling him your name, "Immaculate Virgin Mary who crushed the serpent," you fill the Indians' hearts with joy.  It told them that they no longer needed to make human sacrifices to their pagan idols.

     Hail!  Holy Queen, merciful Mother.  Hail!  Our life, our sweetness and our hope!

     Permit me to join in the songs of praise that, to this day, this whole nation sends up to your throne' many coming long distances to offer you gifts and prayers.

 

     Pray for us Holy Mother of God, exterminate the SERPANT OF EVIL from our lives, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ, your Divine Son.

say four Hail Mary's and the Memorare to Our Lady of Guadalupe:

Memorare to Our Lady of Guadalupe

     Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions.  You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.  Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, either for the common welfare, or in personal anxieties, was left unaided.

     Inspired by this confidence, we run to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God!  Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before your presence, certain that you will fulfill your merciful promises.  We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness, or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

     You wanted to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life.  Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

     Our Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us.  Amen.