For a Successful Pregnancy
Powerful is your intercession with God, Mary, for you are his mother. Tender , too, is your love for us, for you are our mother. Confidently , then, I come to you as a child, poor and needy, to seek your aid and protection for Heather and the child she carries. In every trial of motherhood, I beg your aid. For the grace of a happy delivery, I come to you. For your holy assistance in guarding and directing each tiny soul with which God entrusts her, I call to you. In every sorrow that comes to her in my motherhood, I confide in you.
That she may have strength to bear cheerfully all the pains and hardships of motherhood, I lean on you. That the sweetness of motherhood may not through my neglect be embittered in later years by pains of regret, I trust in you.
That the will of God may always be fulfilled in her through each act of my motherhood, little and great, I beg your aid. Never forsake her dear Mother, my hope, my consolation, my confidence, and my trust, but ever be at her side to aid and protect Hather, your needy child. Amen.
Mother of Love, of Sorrow, and of Mercy, Pray for us!
Dearest Mary, I look to you now for the help of your maternal love. You understand the trials as an expectant mother. You bore Jesus in your womb. You know the doubts and anxieties that beset Heathe; you know the bodily suffering she endures. Like you, may I turn all these sorrows into joy. You overcame anxiety by a loving trust in God; you overcame doubt by gentle resignation to His will.
Your motherhood lifted your mind above earth and kept it close to God.
So speak to Jesus now with me, beloved Mother, as I seek prayerfully for Heather to learn to bear the trials of motherhood with joy.
Mother of Perpetual Help, Pray for Heather!