Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes – A Powerful Devotion for Healing and Miracles
Every year, millions of faithful turn to Our Lady of Lourdes seeking healing, hope, and consolation. Whether you carry emotional wounds, physical illness, or deep spiritual burdens, this novena has brought extraordinary graces to countless souls since 1858.
If your heart longs for relief, clarity, or divine intervention, the Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes is a powerful path of prayer.
Historical Context: The Apparitions at Lourdes
On February 11, 1858, in a small village in southern France, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous at the Grotto of Massabielle. Over the course of 18 apparitions, Our Lady revealed herself as “I am the Immaculate Conception,” confirming the dogma proclaimed only four years earlier.
Crowds gathered as Bernadette prayed her rosary before the mysterious “beautiful Lady.” During one of the apparitions, Mary instructed Bernadette to dig in the dirt, revealing a miraculous spring. That water continues to flow today and has been associated with thousands of healings, both physical and spiritual.
These events transformed Lourdes into one of the greatest pilgrimage sites in the world.
A Documented Miracle at Lourdes
One of the most famous and medically verified miracles occurred in 1939, involving Gabriel Gargam, a French postal worker who survived a catastrophic train accident.
Thrown from the wreckage and left paralyzed from the waist down, Gargam was bedridden for months, unable to move, eat, or speak normally. Doctors declared his condition irreversible. His mother insisted on bringing him to Lourdes, though the journey seemed impossible.
Upon arriving at the sanctuary, he was placed near the Grotto, where pilgrims prayed continuously for his healing. During a blessing with the Blessed Sacrament, witnesses reported that Gabriel suddenly felt warmth spread through his body. He stood up—unaided—for the first time in a year.
Medical experts documented his recovery, which had no scientific explanation. A commission later approved it as an official miracle of Lourdes.
This miracle continues to inspire the faithful who seek Our Lady’s intercession with persistent trust.
Why Pray This Novena?
This novena is especially powerful for:
- Healing of body, mind, or spirit
- Strength during illness—your own or a loved one’s
- Peace in times of anxiety, fear, or uncertainty
- Conversion of family members
- Courage to carry personal crosses
- Trust and surrender to God’s will
How to Pray This Novena
The traditional dates for this novena are February 2nd to February 10th, leading up to the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11th.
However, you can pray it anytime you need healing, hope, or guidance.
Steps
- Begin with the Opening Prayer of the Novena
- Add the Prayer for the Day (Day 1–Day 9)
- Include your intention (silently or aloud)
- Conclude with: “Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us”
- Optional: Pray a Rosary after the daily prayer
- If possible, light a candle or place an image of Lourdes during the novena
💙 Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes
Opening Prayer
Be blessed,
O most pure Virgin,
for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life,
sweetness and beauty,
in the Grotto of Lourdes,
saying to the child, St. Bernadette:
“I am the Immaculate Conception.”
A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception.
And now,
O ever Immaculate Virgin,
Mother of mercy,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
you know our wants,
our troubles,
our sufferings;
deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.
By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes,
you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary,
whence you dispense your favors,
and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities,
both spiritual and physical.
We come,
therefore,
with the most unbounded confidence
to implore your maternal intercession.
Obtain for us,
O loving Mother,
the granting of our request…
(Make your request here…)
Through gratitude for your favors,
we will endeavor to imitate your virtues,
that we may one day share your glory.
Our Lady of Lourdes,
Mother of Christ,
you had influence with your Divine Son while upon earth.
You have the same influence now in Heaven.
Pray for us;
obtain for us from your Divine Son
our special requests if it be the Divine Will.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
(Recite the appropriate daily prayer..)
Day 1
O Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
virgin and mother,
queen of heaven,
chosen from all eternity
to be the Mother of the Eternal Word
and in virtue of this title preserved from original sin,
we kneel before you as did little Bernadette at Lourdes
and pray with childlike trust in you
that as we contemplate your glorious appearance at Lourdes,
you will look with mercy on our present petition
and secure for us a favorable answer
to the request for which we are making in this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 2
Be blessed,
O most pure Virgin,
for having vouchsafed to manifest yourself shining with light,
sweetness and beauty,
in the Grotto of Lourdes,
saying to the child Saint Bernadette:
“I am the Immaculate Conception!”
O Mary Immaculate,
inflame our hearts
with one ray of the burning love of your pure heart.
Let them be consumed with love for Jesus and for you,
in order that we may merit one day
to enjoy your glorious eternity.
O dispenser of His graces here below,
take into your keeping and present
to your Divine Son the petition
for which we are making this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 3
“You are all fair, O Mary,
and there is in you no stain of original sin.”
O Mary, conceived without sin,
pray for us who have recourse to thee.
O brilliant star of sanctity,
as on that lovely day,
upon a rough rock in Lourdes,
you spoke to the child Bernadette
and a fountain broke from the plain earth
and miracles happened
and the great shrine of Lourdes began,
so now I beseech you
to hear our fervent prayer and do,
we beseech you,
grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 4
O Immaculate Queen of Heaven,
we your wayward, erring children,
join our unworthy prayers
of praise and thanksgiving
to those of the angels and saints
and your own—
the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity—
that God may be glorified
in heaven and on earth.
Our Lady of Lourdes,
as you looked down
with love and mercy upon Bernadette
as she prayed her rosary in the grotto,
look down now, we beseech you,
with love and mercy upon us.
From the abundance of graces
granted you by your Divine Son,
sweet Mother of God,
give to each of us all that your motherly heart sees we need,
and at this moment look with special favor
on the grace we seek in this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 5
O Mary Immaculate,
Mother of God and our mother,
from the heights of your dignity
look down mercifully upon us
while we, full of confidence
in your unbounded goodness
and confident that your Divine Son
will look favorably upon any request
you make of Him in our behalf,
we beseech you to come to our aid
and secure for us the favor we seek in this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God.
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 6
O glorious Mother of God,
so powerful under your special title
of Our Lady of Lourdes,
to you we raise our hearts and hands
to implore your powerful intercession
in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus
all the helps and graces necessary
for our spiritual and temporal welfare
and for the special favor
we so earnestly seek in this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Lady of Bernadette,
with the stars of heaven in your hair
and the roses impassioned upon us today
as you did so long ago on Bernadette
in the Grotto of Lourdes.
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 7
O Almighty God,
who by the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
did prepare a worthy dwelling place
for your Son,
we humbly beseech you
that as we contemplate
the apparition of Our Lady
in the Grotto of Lourdes,
we may be blessed
with health of mind and body.
And,
O most gracious Mother Mary,
beloved Mother of Our Lord and Redeemer,
look with Bernadette and intercede with him
for us that the favor
we now so earnestly seek
may be granted to us…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 8
O Immaculate Mother of God,
from heaven itself you came
to appear to the little Bernadette
in the rough Grotto of Lourdes!
And as Bernadette knelt at your feet
and the magic spring burst forth
and as multitudes have knelt
ever since before your shrine,
O Mother of God,
we kneel before you today
to ask that in your mercy
you plead with your Divine Son
to grant the special favor
we seek in this novena…
(Make your request here…)
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
Day 9
O glorious Mother of God,
to you we raise our hearts and hands
to implore your powerful intercession
in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus
all the graces necessary
for our spiritual and temporal welfare,
particularly for the grace of a happy death
as we conclude this novena
for the special favor we seek here…
(Make your request here…)
We feel animated with confidence
that your prayers in our behalf
will be graciously heard.
O Mother of my Lord,
through the love you bear
to Jesus Christ
and for the glory of His Name,
hear our prayers
and obtain our petitions.
O Brilliant star of purity,
Mary Immaculate,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
glorious assumption,
triumphant in your coronation,
show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God,
Virgin Mary,
Queen and Mother,
be our comfort,
hope,
strength,
and consolation.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
About Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following the apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. She is revered as Mother of Mercy, Refuge of the Sick, and Comfort of the Afflicted.
Since then, more than 7,000 medically documented healings have been recorded, with many recognized as miraculous by the Church. Lourdes remains one of the world’s greatest sanctuaries of hope and healing.
Related Prayers and Novenas
- Novena to Saint Bernadette
- Healing Prayer to St. Peregrine
- Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
- Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Frequently Asked Questions
The Church teaches that the water itself is not magic, but a sacramental, a sign of faith. Many healings occur through trust in God, repentance, and Mary’s intercession.
Yes. You can offer every day for a loved one who is ill or in need of grace.
Peace, clarity, renewed hope, and sometimes unexpected graces. God always hears every prayer.
