Prayer For A Retreat

[Guest wsg4]

My friends,

I come before you asking for a great favor. If you would, please remember St. Aloysius LifeTeen in your prayers as we approach our Spring Retreat at the end of February. I am asking for anyone who is able to do so to please pray a novena (beginning on Wednesday February 17 [Ash Wednesday]) to Our Lady of Perpetual Help for the intentions of a Spirit-filled retreat, for protection over the teens, and for guidance for the Core Team and our priest.

The prayer would be as follows:
[quote]Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you.
(Then say three Hail Marys).[/quote]

Thank you for those of you who can commit to this.