This is the more common prayer for the novena. Although the link says that the novena is to be prayed from Aug 7 to 15, I believe that novenas usually end on the day before the feast day, and then the consecration is made on the feast day. So, one should begin on Aug 6. https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Our-Blessed-Mother/novena-to-our-lady-of-the-assumption.html There is also a much longer version that some may wish to pray: http://devotiontoourlady.com/nv-assumption.html
If you like having a short video daily, the following Assumption Novena of meditations and prayers which were produced at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in La Crosse, in 2011, is very good. For each day, August 6 – 14, Father Peter Damian Fehlner, who was the first Rector of the Shrine Church, gives a short reflection on Our Lady followed by a prayer. At the following link: https://www.guadalupeshrine.org/multimedia/videos/novena-solemnity-assumption
Thank you SgCatholic for posting this. I am doing the novena and reconsecrating myself with the nine day preparation. I would not have been prompted to do this with out your reminder. I just received this from Cathy Nolan of Catholic TV. from Arch bishop Sheen's book "The World's First Love" which was written in 1952, only two years after the Dogma of the Assumption was declared by Pope Pius XII. "Within three decades the definition of the Assumption will cure the pessimism and despair of the modern world. Freud, who did so much to develop this pessimism, took as his motto; "If I cannot move the Gods on high, I shall set all hell in an uproar." That uproar which he created will now be stilled by a Lady as powerful as an "army drawn up in battle array." The age of the "body beautiful" will now become the age of the Assumption. "In Mary there is a triple transition. In the Annunciation we pass from the holiness of the Old Testament to the holiness of Christ. At Pentecost we pass from the holiness of the historical Christ to the holiness of the Mystical Christ or His Body, which is the Church. Mary here received the Spirit for a second time. The first overshadowing was to give birth to the Head of the Church: this second overshadowing is to give birth to His Body as she is in the midst of the Apostles abiding in prayer. The third transition is the Assumption, as she becomes the first human person to realize the historical destiny of the faithful as members of Christ's Mystical Body, beyond time, beyond death, and beyond judgment. "Mary is always in the vanguard of humanity. She is compared to Wisdom, presiding at creation; she is announced as the woman who will conquer Satan, as the Virgin who will conceive. She becomes the first person since the Fall to have a unique and unrepeatable kind of union with God; she mothers the infant Christ in Bethlehem; she mothers the Mystical Christ at Jerusalem; and now, by her Assumption, she goes ahead like her Son to prepare a place for us. She participates in the glory of her Son, reigns with Him, presides at His Side over the destinies of the Church in time, and intercedes for us, to Him, as He, in His turn, intercedes to the Heavenly Father. "Adam came before Eve chronologically. The new Adam, Christ, comes after the New Eve, Mary, chronologically, although existentially He preceded her as the Creator a creature. By stressing for the moment only the time element, Mary always seems to be the advent of what is in store for man. She anticipates Christ for nine months, as she bears Heaven within her; she anticipates His Passion at Cana and His Church at Pentecost. Now, in the last great doctrine of the Assumption, she anticipates Heavenly glory, and the definition comes at a time when men think of it least. "One wonders if this could not be the last of the great truths of Mary to be defined by the Church. Anything else might seem to be an anticlimax after she is declared to be in Heaven, body and soul. But actually there is one other truth left to be defined, and that is that she is the Mediatrix, under her Son, of all graces. As St. Paul speaks of the Ascension of Our Lord as the prelude to His intercession for us, so we fittingly, should speak of the Assumption of Our Lady as a prelude to her intercession for us. First, the place, Heaven; then the function, intercession. The nature of her role is not to call her Son's attention to some need, in an emergency unnoticed by Him, nor is it to "win" a difficult consent. Rather it is to unite herself to His compassionate Mercy and give a human voice to His Infinite Love. The main ministry of Mary is to incline men's' hearts to obedience to the will of her Divine Son. Her last recorded words at Cana are still her words in the Assumption; 'Whatsoever He shall say to you, that do ye.'" (Fulton J Sheen, The World's First Love, Mary, Mother of God. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York. 1952)
Thank you, Sam and HeavenlyHosts. I wasn't sure if anyone else was doing the novena. I rather like the video series. Allow me to post the all the videos here. Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO OUR LADY ON THE FEAST OF HER ASSUMPTION INTO HEAVEN, AUGUST 15TH Based on the Prayer of Pope St. Pius X O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and mother of humanity, we believe with all the fervor of our Faith in thy triumphal assumption, both in body and in soul, into Heaven; where thou art acclaimed as Queen by all the choirs of angels and all the legions of saints! We unite with them to praise and bless the Lord, Who has exalted thee above all other pure creatures and to offer thee the tribute of our devotion and our love. We know that thy gaze, which on Earth watched over the humble and suffering humanity of Jesus, in Heaven is filled with the vision of that humanity glorified and with the vision of uncreated wisdom, and that the joy of thy soul, in the direct contemplation of the adorable Trinity, causes thy Immaculate Heart to beat with overwhelming tenderness. We, poor sinners, whose body weights down the flight of our soul to Heaven, humbly beg thee to purify our hearts so that, while we remain below, we may learn to see God and God alone in the beauties of his creatures. To that end we consecrate ourselves to thee on this the feast of the Assumption. We trust that thy merciful eyes may deign to gaze down upon our miseries and anguish, upon our struggles and our weaknesses; that thy countenance may smile upon us and bring us joys and victories; that you may hear the voice of Jesus saying to you, of each one of us, as He once said to you of His beloved disciple: “Behold thy son,” and we who call upon thee as our mother, we, like John, take thee as the guide, strength and consolation of our mortal life. We are inspired by the certainty that thy eyes, which wept over the earth crimsoned by the blood of Jesus, are yet turned toward this world racked by wars and persecutions, the oppression of the just and the weak. From the shadows of this valley of tears, we seek in thy heavenly assistance, tender mercy, comfort for our aching hearts, and help in the trials of Church and country. We believe finally that in the glory where thou reignest, clothed with the sun and crowned with stars, thou art, after Jesus, the joy and gladness of all the angels and the saints, and from this Earth, over which we tread as pilgrims, comforted by our Faith in the future resurrection, we look to thee, our life, our sweetness, our hope! Draw us onward with the sweetness of thy voice, so that one day, after our exile, thou mayest show us Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Amen.
