NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE VOCATIONS

 NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE VOCATIONS

O Most Holy Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Divine Vocations! We contemplate and venerate you, in the glory of the privileges, of the dignity, of the missions with which the most Holy Trinity has adorned you and only you, O most holy Mary, through every habitual and actual grace; you became a marvelous star of glory for the most holy Trinity!

And we desire in the divine grace, to grow in our heart, by every gift that the Lord has given to you, as a rose of love, to offer it to you so that you may offer it to the most holy Trinity, and may help us so that all may bear in our life fruits of the Holy Spirit in your filial imitation.

Hail Mary...

O Blessed Virgin Mother of God, Our Lady of Divine Vocations! Accept the homage of our daily rosary and enable us to present it to you always better and lively, always more meritorious of eternal life so that it can be offered, laid before the throne of God in the heavenly worship, among those of the angels and the saints at the court of the Lamb.

Obtain for us that every decade of our rosary, may be a battle and a victory against the enemy seen in a particular defect, may be a battle and a conquest of the kingdom of heavens seen in a particular virtue, so that the commemoration of every joyful, sorrowful luminous and glorious mystery may be fruitful to us in truth.

Hail Mary...

O most holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God, Our Lady of Divine Vocations, here, we gather ourselves around you, and we live your life, our vocation and mission with you. Although much unworthy, may you be for us the Mediatrix of all graces, the helper of all souls, the queen of all saints, the mother of gentle love! Make us saints, O Mary, in truth and in charity.

We gather ourselves around you to pray with you, to participate n your spirit of prayer! Make our religious family a cenacle, queen of the apostles, our mother and patroness, may the Holy Spirit descend on us all and transform us into great apostles of Jesus Christ, into perfect religious of God according to Jesus Christ.

Hail Mary...

Behold O most holy Mary, O Virgin Mother of God, whom we implore especially every day for the grace of perseverance in cur vocation and mission! You, accepted your calling without hesitation and immediately brought the benefit of your vocation to the house of Zechariah and Elisabeth, protect our vocation and our Congregation and make of it a spring of holiness so that we all may be saints and sanctifiers according to our vocation and mission.

We believe, O Mary that as all graces come to us through you, so also through you come to us our vocation and mission. Grant that our Congregation, placed by the Blessed Trinity under your superiorship may remain faithful to its charism of animating, cultivating, forming all vocations to life, to faith and holiness and especially all vocations to priesthood and consecrated life.

Hail Mary...

Pray for us O mother of divine vocations,

That we may be worthy of the promises of Christ

Let us pray:

O Most Holy Trinity, being a God of love, you continuously call your chosen ones to be imitators and continuators of the vocation and mission of Jesus: Grant that with Mary and through he protection we may continue to call and form those whom you call throughout the ages. Make our vocational journey an ascensional one and make us truly cooperators of the Holy Spirit in forming your saints. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

(Novena taken from St Justin Russolillo, Works, Vol XX: Consecrations, trans. Fr Louis M. Caputo SDV, Vocationist Editions, NJ, 2021, pp. 123 - 125.)

"Are you in sorrow? Turn to Mary, for her name means also "Sea of Bitterness which has been filled with sharp pain in this world but which is now turned into a Sea of the Purest Joy in heaven," and she will turn your sorrow to joy and your afflictions into consolation."(St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary, trans. Mary Barbour, Montfort Publications, Bay Shore, 1999, pp. 50-51)