Deus qui per immaculatam.(See 199).
199.Five Novenas for the Principal Feasts of Our Lady. These Novenas maybe said in public or private, i. 300 Days, each day. ii. Plenary on the Feast or during the Octave. I, II, IV. (See Instructions.)
Ave Maria nine times, and Gloria PATRI once.
Prayer for the First Day.
BEHOLD me at thy sacred feet, O Immaculate Virgin. I rejoice with thee, because from all eternity thou wast elected to be the Mother of the Eternal Word, and wast preserved stainless from the taint of original sin. I praise and bless the Most Holy Trinity, who poured out upon thy soul in thy Conception the treasure of that privilege. I humbly pray thee to obtain for me grace effectually to overcome the sad effects produced in my soul by original sin; make me wholly victorious over them, that I may never cease to love my GOD. Then say or sing the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, No. 189, or else, V/.Tota pulchra es Maria, R/. Tota pulchra es Maria V/.Et macula originalis non est in te R/.Et macula originalis non est in te V/. Tu gloria Jerusalem. R/. Tu lætitia Israel. V/. Tu honorificentia populi nostri. R/. Tu advocata peccatorum. V/. O Maria. R/. O Maria. V/. Virgo prudentissima. R/. Mater clementissima. V/. Ora pro nobis. R/. Intercede pro nobis ad DOMINUM JESUM CHRISTUM. After the Litany or Hymn as above, say, V/. In Conceptione tua, Virgo, immaculata fuisti. R/. Ora pro nobis PATREM, CUJUS FlLIUM peperisti. Oremus. DEus qui per Immaculatam Virginis Conceptionem dignum FILIO tuo habitaculum præparasti: quæsumus ut qui ex morte ejusdem FILII tui prævisa eam ab omni labe præservasti, nosquo que mundos ejus intercessione ad te pervenire con cedas. Per CHRISTUM DOMINUM nostrum. Amen. DEUS omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum N., quem pastorem ecclesiæ tuæ præesse voluisti, propitius respice; da ei quæsumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus præest, proficere, ut ad vitam una cum grege sibi credito perveniat sempiternam.
DEUS refugium nostrum et virtus, adesto piis ecclesiæ tuæ precibus, auctor ipse pietatis; et præsta, ut quod fideliter petimus efficaciter consequamur. Per CHRISTUM DOMINUM nostrum, R/. Amen.