Immaculate Conception Church

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, a liturgy will be celebrated at 6:30 P.M. in honor of St. Peregrine at the Immaculate Conception Church on East Merrimack Street in Lowell. St. Peregrine is the patron saint of cancer patients, and is the saint many cancer patients, family members, and friends pray to for comfort and strength. The Mass will be live streamed from the parish Facebook page found here: https://www.facebook.com/Immaculate-Conception-Church-Lowell-MA-101282261524955 During this Mass, the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick will be offered to cancer patients and to any who wish to partake of this sacrament of God’s healing. All are invited to come and pray with and for those afflicted with cancer. The Prayer and Novena to Saint Peregrine can be found below and can also be downloaded here: Saint Peregrine Novena and Prayer Novena to St. Peregrine Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother. You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand. Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life. Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men. Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body (especially…..). Obtain for me also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send me, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven. St. Peregrine, pray for me and for all who invoke your aid. Prayer to Saint Peregrine O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Mighty,” “The Wonder-Worker,” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction.  Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. [Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying] Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy. Amen.