Novena, Hymns and Prayers to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Devout clients of our Blessed Lady will perhaps desire to know what is the meaning of a Novena, or when such a pious practice was first introduced? The practice of making a Novena, or nine days' prayer, dates back to the time when our Blessed Lady and the Apostles, after the ascension of our Lord into heaven, remained nine days in prayer, in preparation for the coming of the Holy Ghost. Ever since that time it has been a pious custom of the faithful to make Novenas in commemoration of some myste