The Prayer to Our Lady of Good Health is a petition to Mary under her title of Our Lady of Vailankanni, asking her intercession for healing and strength in times of sickness. It calls upon her compassion as a mother who has brought comfort and recovery to the sick throughout the ages, entrusting our bodily and spiritual needs to her care and asking for the grace to accept God’s will with patience and peace.
Prayer to Our Lady of Good Health (Vailankanni)
O Mary! Our Mother of Health and our Heavenly Queen, seated on your throne of mercy and compassion in your Holy Shrine at Vailankanni, we praise and honor you as our refuge and our relief. Numerous are the sick who through you have recovered health.
Relying on your power and goodness, we fly to you and implore you to heal our infirmities and to obtain for us perfect health of body and soul, that we may better be able to serve you and your Divine Son.
At all times you have been the help and consolation of the sick. You obtain for them health when it is conducive to their salvation. You assist them at the time of their death. Help them, O Most amiable Mother, and obtain for us cure of all our sufferings, or patience to endure them in the spirit of resignation agreeable to God’s Holy Will, so that all our trials and sufferings may help to purify our souls and help us to detach ourselves from earthly ties. Amen.