Traditionally, prayers are prayed from September 7th to 15th
ÖMemorial of Our Lady of Sorrowsit is september 15th
First day - September 7th
Second day - September 8th
Third day - September 9th
Fourth day - September 10th
Fifth day - September 11th
Sixth day - September 12
Day seven - September 13th
Eighth day - September 14
Ninth day - September 15
Travel 1
Prayer in honor of the First Sorrow of Mary,
The Prophecy of Simeon in the Temple:
Sad mother, your heart was filled with pain when, at the sacrifice of your divine Son in the temple, Saint Simeon prophesied that a sword would pierce your soul. In that moment you knew that you would suffer with Jesus.
Queen of Martyrs, in this pain let me join my heart with yours and ask your grace to keep the thought of my death in mind, so as to always avoid sin.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 2
Prayer in honor of the Second Sorrow of Mary,
the flight to Egypt:
Very sad mother, her mother's heart overflowed with pain at Herod's hatred of her innocent son. To save yourself from the king's jealousy, you had to flee to Egypt with him. Your heart, too, suffered as you saw your holy husband, St. Joseph, suffer at the prospect of bearing the divine child and you, his tender bride, into the wilderness and into the unknown.
Queen of Martyrs, in this pain let me unite my heart to yours and obtain for me the grace to avoid those who would harm me. Help me to avoid temptation and never give up the difficult but true path to heaven.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 3
Prayer in honor of the Third Sorrow of Mary,
the encounter of Jesus in the temple:
Sorrowful Mother, pain, pain and anguish filled Her Immaculate Heart as she discovered that she was separated from her son as she left Jerusalem. For three days He remained lost to you and your holy Spouse. For three days you searched for the one who was the light of your life. And for three days you could not find Him.
Let me share this pain with you, O Queen of Martyrs, and ask me the grace never to lose Jesus through sin, but to remain united to him with the help of his grace. If I have the misfortune of falling, may I never doubt his mercy and always come back through the sacrament of confession he instituted.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 4
Prayer in honor of the Fourth Sorrows of Mary,
the encounter of Mary and Jesus on the way to Calvary:
Sad mother, who can imagine the pain in your heart as you saw your son fall wounded and bleeding under the crushing weight of the cross on the road to Calvary?
Queen of Martyrs, in this pain let me join my heart to yours and ask me the grace to patiently bear any cross that God chooses to send me.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 5
Prayer in honor of the Quinta Dores de Maria,
Crucifixion and death of Jesus:
Sad mother, your heart was pierced on the cross of Jesus. And yet you didn't sit down or even bow, but stood and watched him suffer for the sins of the whole world—for my sins. Like Abraham, you knowingly and willingly offered the sacrifice standing up. In your case you offered it for me and for every sinner. But unlike Abraham, you stood by and watched him die. In your case, your perfect son was not spared.
Queen of Martyrs, let me share this pain with you and obtain for me the grace to fight temptation and sin at the cost of effort, suffering and even life. When it is my turn, mother, through the death of your son and your sacrifice, grant me the grace to die in his holy grace - the grace of a happy death.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 6
Prayer in honor of the sixth sorrow of Mary,
piercing the side of Jesus and his descent from the cross:
Sorrowful mother, when your son's body was taken down from the cross and placed in your arms, sadness filled your heart. perfect life, health and beauty, terribly scarred, pale and lifeless.
Mother, Queen of Martyrs, in this pain, let me join my heart with yours and make me take Jesus into my soul before I die, so that I may join Him in heaven forever.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
is 7
Prayer in honor of the Seventh Sorrows of Mary,
The burial of Jesus:
Sorrowful Virgin, pain filled your heart again as your Son's sacred body was taken from your arms and laid in a cold tomb. However, they did not doubt that he would rise again.
Queen of Martyrs, let me accompany you in your sorrow and grant me your own deep trusting faith in the Word of your Son. Let me trust that even in suffering, even when all seems lost, there is always a way out with Jesus.
Obtain for me also a sincere repentance for all my sins, an ardent love for my God, a tender devotion to you, so that one day I may die in his grace and rise with him to eternal life.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
is 8
September 14 - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross:
Sweet Mother of Sorrows, Providence wished that Saint Helena, like you, mother of a king, would find your son's cross and pay lavish honors to this relic of relics.
Grant me, sorrowful Queen and Mother, that like Saint Helena, I will always honor the symbol of our salvation, the cross. And like the church, I can pick it up, display it, and wear it with gratitude and pride.
Above all, may I unite my sufferings with Jesus on the cross and bear my crosses not with shame but with faith, love and patience as he did.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Travel 9
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the immeasurable pain you have experienced witnessing the martyrdom, crucifixion and death of your Divine Son, look upon me with kindness and awaken a tender one in my heart compassion for the sufferings of our Lord.
Grant me a sincere abhorrence of my sins, that, freed from undue affection for the transitory pleasures of earth, I may aspire to the eternal pleasures of heaven.
May all my thoughts and all my actions be directed toward this great goal. Glory, Glory and Love to our Divine Lord Jesus and the Holy and Immaculate Mother of God.
Ave Maria…
Prayer to Our Sorrowful Mother for a special grace:
O Most Holy and Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs, who were by your Son's side as he died on the cross. For the sufferings of your life, for the sword of pain that has pierced your heart, for your perfect joy in Heaven, look on me with kindness as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your pain and offering my request with childlike trust.
Dear Mother, because your Son does not refuse you anything, ask His Sacred Heart to graciously answer my prayer and grant this prayer according to His most perfect will. Therefore I pray on the merits of His Holy Passion along with the merits of His sufferings at the foot of the Cross...
(mention your intention here…)
Merciful Mother, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you, who have pity on us poor sinners exiled in this vale of tears? I ask you to offer Jesus just a drop of His Precious Blood and a single ache of His Loving Heart. Remind him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope and your prayer will be answered. Amen
Learn by heart:
Remember, O Gracious Virgin Mary, that no one has ever fled for your protection, begged your help, or asked for your intercession without help. Inspired by this trust, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my mother. I come to you, before you I stand sinful and sad. O Mother of the Incarnate Word, do not despise my requests, but in Your gentleness hear me and answer me. Amen.
Post image used above:Jose Cameron and Bononat, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
FAQs
What is the novena prayer to Our Lady of Seven Sorrows? ›
By the sufferings of your life, by that sword of pain that pierced your heart, by your perfect joy in heaven, look down on me kindly as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your sorrows and offering you my petition with childlike trust.
What is the novena to Our Lady of Sorrows Day 8? ›Day 8 Prayer
O sorrowful Mother, I turn to you in total trust. You suffered the sharpest pains in life, watching your Son die upon the Cross, and yet you remained by Him to the end.
Our Lady of Sorrows Novena - Day 3
Amen. O BLESSED Virgin Mary, Mother of our Redeemer! remember we are thy children, given to thee by thy Divine Son, when expiring on the cross. Mother of sorrows!
Beloved Mother, so stricken with grief, help us to bear our own suffering with courage and love so that we may relieve your Sorrowful Heart and that of Jesus. In doing so, may we give glory to God Who gave you and Jesus to humanity.
How do you pray the devotion to the seven sorrows of Mary? ›Say, "My God, I offer you this Rosary in honour of the seven principal Sorrows of Mary, for your greatest glory, for my conversion and that of all people through your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our salvation and our unique way to come to you, in union with the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen!"