Our Lady of Good Counsel Novena begins 4/18/10

Pray the Novena (April 18-26) to Our Lady of Good Counsel of Genazzano with absolute trust, since countless miracles and prodigies are worked by this stunning image.

About one such miracle, Father Dillon writes:

“From this picture then, She spoke to him [St. Aloysius Gonzaga] not once, but many times; comforting him in his troubles, confirming him in his vocation, and giving him, it is said, a thousand expressions of her Maternal tenderness. No wonder he should become a saint and a great one.”
“What he experienced is simply that which is experienced, though perhaps in a less miraculous way, by all who approach the wonderful original. Thousands tell how Mary there appears to speak to them, to unravel the secrets of their hearts, to show them the future, to guide them in their course through life, to defend them against every danger of soul and body; and. in a word, to repay their devotion and love a hundred, aye, and a hundred thousand fold.”

This came to me from the America Needs Fatima Organization.

Please, for the love of your soul, pray the Novena to Our Lady of Good Counsel of Genazzano. You won’t be disappointed.

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Our Lady of Good Counsel
(State your petitions)
Holy Virgin, moved by the painful uncertainty we experience in seeking and acquiring the true and the good, we cast ourselves at thy feet and invoke thee under the sweet title of Mother of Good Counsel. We beseech thee: come to our aid at this moment in our worldly sojourn when the twin darknesses of error and of evil that plots our ruin by leading minds and hearts astray.

Seat of Wisdom and Star of the Sea, enlighten the victims of doubt and of error so that they may not be seduced by evil masquerading as good; strengthen them against the hostile and corrupting forces of passion and of sin.

Mother of Good Counsel, obtain for us from thy Divine Son the love of virtue and the strength to choose, in doubtful and difficult situations, the course agreeable to our salvation.
Supported by thy hand we shall thus journey without harm along the paths taught us by the word and example of Jesus our Savior, following the Sun of Truth and Justice in freedom and safety across the battlefield of life under the guidance of thy maternal Star, until we come at length to the harbor of salvation to enjoy with thee unalloyed and everlasting peace.

Amen.

(By Pope Pius XII, 23 January 1953)