Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes for Healing
Updated: Oct 3
In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times to St. Bernadette Soubirous, a poor fourteen-year-old girl, in a grotto at Lourdes in southern France. She called herself "the Immaculate Conception," asked for prayer and penance, and showed Bernadette a spring that still flows today. Millions of pilgrims visit every year, and the Church has recognized many healings there as miraculous.
This traditional prayer asks Our Lady, Health of the Sick, to look with mercy on our needs. Pray it for yourself or a loved one who is ill, on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11, also the World Day of the Sick), or as a novena from February 3 to 11.
The Prayer
O ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, thou knowest my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, thou wert pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence thou dispensest thy favors, and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal. I come, therefore, with unbounded confidence to implore thy maternal intercession. Obtain, O loving Mother, the grant of my requests. I will endeavor to imitate thy virtues, that I may one day share thy glory and bless thee in eternity. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. St. Bernadette, pray for us.
Sources: Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes as printed in With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), public domain.
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