The document contains a prayer and novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, asking for her intercession and guidance in accepting life's challenges with faith, serving others in need as she did, and finding courage through trials like she did at the foot of the cross with her son Jesus. It reflects on Mary's example of faith, compassion, and strength through suffering to help Christians face difficulties with God's grace.

1. January 13, 2021
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3. Prayer to our mother of PerpetualHelp
Mother of Perpetual Help,
with the greatest confidence we
come before your holy picture
to be inspired by the example of
your life.
We think of you at that
moment when, full of faith and
trust, you accepted God’s call
to be the mother of his Son.
Help us, your children, to
accept with joy our own calling
in life.

4. Prayer to our mother of PerpetualHelp
When you learned that your
cousin Elizabeth was in need,
you immediately went to
serve her and offer your help.
Help us, like you, to be
concerned for others.
We think of you, Mother, at
the foot of the cross.
Your heart must have bled to
see your Son in agony.

5. Prayer to our mother of PerpetualHelp
But your joy was great when he
rose from the dead, victorious
over the powers of evil.
Mother of Sorrows, help us
through the trials and
disappointments of life.
Help us not to lose heart.
May we share with you and
your Son the joy of having
courageously faced up to all
the challenges of life.
Amen

6. NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help,
grant that we may ever invoke
your powerful name, the
protection of the living and the
salvation of the dying. Mother
of Perpetual Help, today we
face so many difficulties.
Hail Mary… (3X)

7. Your picture tells us so much
about you. It reminds us to
reach out and help those in
need. Help us understand that
our lives belong to others as
much as they belong to us.
Hail Mary… (3X)

8. In our temptations, in
our needs, we will never
cease to call on you, ever
repeating your sacred
name, Mary, Mary.
Hail Mary… (3X)

9. What a consolation, what
sweetness, what confidence fills
our soul when we utter your
sacred name or even only think of
you! we thank the Lord for having
given you so sweet, so powerful,
so lovely a name. But we will not
be content with merely uttering
your name.
Hail Mary… (3X)

10. Let our love for you prompt us ever to
hail you our Mother. Mother of
Perpetual Help, pray for us and grant
us the favor we confidently ask of you.
Mary, Model of Christian love, we
know we cannot heal every ill or solve
every problem. But with God's grace,
we intend to do what we can.
Hail Mary… (3X)

11. Mary, mother of the Church, be near to us
especially when we tend to despair and run
out of the wine of faith, hope and charity.
Teach us to do only what your Son asks of
us. And when we lose heart in the face of
persecution, may we stand by you at the
foot of the Cross and regain our strength
from the blood and water that flowed from
the wounded side of your Beloved Son, our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Hail Mary… (3X)

12. May we be true witnesses to
the world that love for one
another really matters. May
our daily actions proclaim
how fully our lives are
modeled after yours. Amen
Hail Mary… (3X)

13. Opening Prayer