Nine-Month Novena for “Impossible” Requests

“No word shall be impossible with God” (Lk 1:37, cf. Isaiah 7:14)

Optional beginning. {Curly brackets} for one who has done the consecration to Jesus through Mary.
O Mary, ever-blessed Virgin, Mother of God, Queen of the angels and of the saints, I salute thee with the most profound veneration and filial devotion. {I renew the consecration of myself and all I have to thee.} I thank thee for thy maternal protection and for the many blessings that I have received through thy wondrous mercy and most powerful intercession. In all my necessities, I have recourse to thee with unbounded confidence. O Help of Christians, O Mother of mercy, I beseech thee now to hear my prayer, and to obtain for me of thy divine Son the favor that I request in this novena.

Obtain for me, also, dearest Mother, the grace that I may imitate thee and become more like to thee in the practice of the virtues of humility, obedience, purity, poverty, submission to the will of God, and charity. Be my protectress in life, guard and guide me in dangers, direct me in perplexities, lead me in the way of perfection, and assist me in the hour of my death, that I may come to Jesus, and with thee enjoy him, bless him, and love him eternally in heaven. Amen.

Essential part:
Each day, pray the Memorare (Remember, O Most gracious Virgin Mary…). Then make requests one by one, each followed by a Hail Mary.

O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament divine! All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.
Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love!
Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation!
Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph, pray for me!

Optional ending:

(Latin)

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia coeli
Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti
Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem,
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore,
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

(English)

Mother of Christ! Hear thou thy people’s cry,
Star of the deep, and Portal of the sky,
Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made,
Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid:
Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee,
Pure Virgin first and last, look on our misery. 

Trans. Fr. Edward Caswall, 1814–1878

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The prayers and hymn are taken from a Catholic prayer book originally published in 1905 with ecclesiastical approval.
All material is in the public domain.