Best kind of prep!

Tomorrow I will be starting a 9 day prayer marathon (more commonly known as a novena) to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (my favorite Marian Devotion) to entrust to her my whole summer abroad. If you would like to join me, I have included the prayer here. It is a very simple novena:

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).

For more information on Our Lady of Perpetual Help click here.
For more information on what a novena is click here.