Novena to Our Lady of Good Health, Velankanni

 This Novena prayer will be helpful to those helpless people when everything fails, and who wants speedy and visible answers to their agony.

Oh Most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most Adorable Trinity from all eternity to be the most pure Mother of Jesus. 

Oh! Tender Mother of the afflicted! Grant me under my present necessities that special protection.  Relying on the infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting in the promise which He has made that those who ask should receive, and with strong confidence in your powerful prayers, I most humbly plead you to intercede for me. I beg you to obtain for me the favours which I petition for in this novena, if it be the Holy Will of God to grant them; and if not, to ask for me whatever graces I most stand in need of.

(specify your requests)

Oh! Mother of God! accept these salutations in union with the respect and veneration with which the Angel Gabriel first hailed you, "Full of Grace".

(Recite the Hail Mary nine times)

I beseech you, Oh! comfortress of the afflicted, to obtain for me the favours and graces, which I have now implored through your powerful intercession. For this end I offer you my good works I do, and sufferings I endure. I most humbly plead you for the love of the amiable Heart of Jesus, with which yours was ever so inflammed, to hear my humble prayers and to obtain my requests.

Amen. 

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me.

Amen.