Devotion
These prayers for your health, happiness and peace were written by our beloved founder,
Fr. Edward F. Garesché whose life-long ministry was the medical missionary efforts of
the Church throughout the world.
Daily Prayer
Holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God, Health of the Sick, Cause of our Joy, Queen of Peace, and our most loving
Mother, immaculate and sinless Queen of Heaven and Earth, we beg you with perfect confidence to obtain from
our Jesus, for us and for those for whom we wish to pray, Health, Happiness and Peace and in the end life
everlasting. Gain also for us, who make this seven days prayer in thanks for your seven joys, all our other petitions,
and particularly those for which we especially pray. (Here mention your intentions.) With perfect trust we confide
to your motherly care, Ocean of Mercy, Fountain of Love and Healing, ourselves and all our dear ones, all the needs
of our Mother the Church, of our beloved country, and the whole world, and the salvation of every soul, now till the
end of time. Amen
Sunday
In honor of the Immaculate Conception
We rejoice and exult with you, ever Blessed Mother of God, for that unique priviledge by which you were conceived
full of grace, free from Adam's sin by the foresight of the merits of your Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus. Eternal Glory
be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit for this, your wonderful gift of original Innocence. In union with
the Sacred Heart of our Jesus, with your own Immaculate Heart and with the love of all the angels and saints we offer
our thanks and love and praise to the Most Adorable Trinity. Mary conceived without sin, keep us ever innocent and holy!
Obtain for us and for all whom we love, Health, Happiness and Peace with Life Everlasting. Amen.
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Monday
In honor of the Visitation
Hail Virgin Mary, full of grace, purest and fairest delight of God, and mankind, chosen Mother of the Son of God,
our Jesus, we unite in your joy as St. Elizabeth greets you blessed among women, happiest of all mothers.
We give thanks to the Most Holy Trinity in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and with your own Immaculate
Heart, and with all the angels and saints for all your graces and merits. Ardently we implore you, most powerful
and loving of mothers to gain, for us and for all for whom we wish to pray, Health Happiness and Peace of body
and soul, with Life Everlasting, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen..
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Tuesday
In honor of the Nativity
With adoring love Virgin Mother of God, we kneel with you beside the crib of Bethlehem. We unite our hearts
with your most pure Heart to love and thank and praise our new born Jesus for all the graces and gifts with which
He has glorified you, His Immaculate Mother. Love us dear Mother, for Jesus' sake, and obtain for us and for all
for whom we wish to pray, now and always, Health, Happiness and Peace, of body and of soul, with Life
Everlasting, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen..
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Wednesday
In honor of the Adoration of the Magi
In union with the rapture of your most loving Heart, Virgin Mother of God, we rejoice at the coming of the Magi,
princes of the gentiles. With you and with them we love and adore our Saviour Jesus. We offer, by your hands,
to your Divine Child the gold of our love, the incense of our adoration, the myrrh of our willing labors and
sufferings for Him. Plead with Him that we may obtain, by His mercy, Health, Happiness and Peace of body and
soul and in the Life Everlasting for us and for all for whom we pray, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Thursday
In honor of the Finding in the Temple
All loving and gentle Mother of God, we unite our joy with yours when, after weary seeking, you found our
Incarnate Love in His Father's house and about His Father's business. We love and seek Him as you did
with all faith and hope. Win from His mercy that we and all for whom we pray may have Health, Happiness
and Peace, and Life Everlasting. Beg Him by the memory of your tender care to grant us our earnest petitions,
through His infinite merits and Love. Amen.
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Friday
In honor of the Resurrection
It was to you first of all, most beloved Mother, that our Risen Lord must have come to show you the splendor
of His victory over death and sin. By the delight which flooded your soul at the sight of His risen glory,
plead with Him now, in the fullness of His joy in Heaven, that we and all for whom we wish to pray, may be ever
blessed with Health, Happiness and Peace of body and soul, and may come safe at last to the deathless joys of
Heaven. Obtain this for us, we beg of you, through all the merits and prayers of our Jesus, and yours, and
those of all His friends in time and eternity. Amen.
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
Saturday
In honor of the Assumption and Coronation
Our hearts leap with delight, most sweet and loving Mother, at the thought of your glorious Assumption,
when your Divine Son raised you up, body and soul, to be with Him forever, and crowned you the
Queen of Heaven and Earth. God's own omnipotence is swayed by your loving prayers. Gain for us,
therefore, that Health, Happiness and Peace, which we so much desire, for ourselves and all for whom
we wish to pray, and bring us safe, in Life Everlasting, to Jesus Christ our Lord and your Son. Amen..
(Then say the Daily Prayer)
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