The petition: For the protection of the Holy Priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church and especially all falsely accused priests. Will you join us? {Leave us a comment so we know who is joining us 🙂 }
Novena to Our Lady Undoer of Knots – Day 8
2. Say the Act of Contrition. Ask pardon for your sins and make a firm promise not to commit them again.
“Oh my God I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell. But most of all, because I offended Thee, oh my God, who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen”
3. Say the first 3 decades of the Rosary.
4. Make the meditation of the day:
“Virgin Mother of God, overflowing with mercy, have mercy on your child and undo this knot…in the lives of our holy priests. We need your visit to their lives, like you visited Isabel. Bring them Jesus, bring them the Holy Spirit. Teach them to practice the virtues of courage, joyfulness, humility and faith, and, like Isabel, to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Make them joyfully rest on your bosom, Mary. We consecrate you as their mother, Queen and friend. We give you their heart and everything they have (their home and family, their material and spiritual goods.) They yours forever. Put your heart in them so that they can do everything Jesus tells them.
Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for our Holy Priests.
Let us go, therefore, full of trust, to the throne of grace.”
6. Finish with the Prayer to Our Lady the Undoer of Knots:
“Virgin Mary, Mother of fair love, Mother who never refuses to come to the aid of a child in need, Mother whose hands never cease to serve your beloved children because they are moved by the divine love and immense mercy that exists in your heart, cast your compassionate eyes upon your holy priests and see the snarl of knots that exist in their lives. You know very well how desperate they are, their pain and how they are bound by these knots.Mary, Mother to whom God entrusted the undoing of the knots in the lives of his children, we entrust into your hands the ribbon of their lives. No one, not even the Evil One himself, can take it away from your precious care. In your hands there is no knot that cannot be undone.
Powerful Mother, by your grace and intercessory power with Your Son and Our Liberator, Jesus, take into your hands today this knot…we beg you to undo it for the glory of God, once for all, You are their hope.
O my Lady, you are the only consolation God gives them, the fortification of their feeble strength, the enrichment of their destitution and with Christ the freedom from their chains.
Hear our plea for our Holy Priests whom we love so much because they are Christ on earth. Keep them, guide them, protect them, o safe refuge!
Mary, Undoer of Knots, pray for them!
+JMJ+
The Novena has the Cardinal ecclesiastical approval, receiving the “NIHIL OBSTAT and IMPRIMATUR
Imprimatur Paris Archdiocese