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A nine days' private or public devotion
in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces.
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Some Popular Novenas for Your Needs—to Our Lady
of Perpetual Help, St. Jude, St. Blaise, the Sacred Heart, St. Dymphna, St. Monica, St. Maximilian Kolbe.
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Novena to
Our
Lady of Perpetual HelpRecite for 9 days...
See at Your feet,
O Mother of Perpetual Help,
a poor sinner who has recourse to You
and confides in You.
O Mother of Mercy,
have pity on me!
I hear You called the refuge
and the hope of sinners;
be my refuge and my hope.
Help me, for the love of Jesus Christ;
stretch forth Your hand to a poor fallen creature
who recommends himself (herself) to You,
and who devotes himself (herself) to Your service forever.
I bless and thank Almighty God,
who in His mercy had given me this confidence in You,
which I hold to be a pledge of my eternal salvation.
Mary, tender Mother, help me.
Mother of Perpetual Help,
never allow me to lose my God.
Amen.
Recite the following prayers 3 times each...
Our Father...
Hail Mary...
Glory Be...___________________________________________________
Novena to St. Jude
Patron of Deperate Causes
(Long
Version)
Begin by reciting the prayer:
St. Jude, glorious apostle,
faithful servant and friend of Jesus,
the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many.
But the Church honors and invokes you universally
as the patron of hopeless cases,
and of things despaired of.
Pray for me who am so distressed.
Make use, I implore you,
of that particular privilege accorded you
to bring visible
and speedy help where help was almost despaired of.
Come to my assistance in this great need
that I may receive the consolation
and succor of Heaven in all my necessities,
tribulations and sufferings, particularly....
(Make your request here.)
and that I may bless God with you
and all the elect throughout eternity.
St. Jude, apostle, martyr,
and relative of our Lord Jesus Christ,
of Mary, and of Joseph,
intercede for us!
Amen.
Recite the appropriate prayer for each of the 9 days.
DAY ONE
O blessed apostle St. Jude,
who labored zealously among the Gentiles in many lands,
and performed numerous miracles in needy
and despairing cases,
we invoke you to take special interest in us and our needs.
We feel that you understand us in a particular way.
Hear our prayers and our petitions
and plead for us in all our necessities especially...
(Make your request here.)
May we be patient in learning God’s holy will
and courageous in carrying it out.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY TWO
O blessed apostle Jude,
who has been instrumental in gathering us here together this day,
grant that we may always serve Jesus Christ
as he deserves to be served,
giving of our best efforts in living
as he wishes us to live.
May we dispose our hearts and minds
that God will always be inclined
to listen to our prayers and petitions,
especially those petitions which we entrust to your care
and for which we as you to plead for us...
(Make your request here.)
Grant that we may be enlightened as to what is best for us,
in the present and future,
not forgetting the blessings we have received in the past.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY THREE
O holy St. Jude,
apostle of Jesus Christ,
you who have so faithfully
and devotedly helped to spread his Gospel of Light,
we who are gathered together today in your honor,
ask and petition you to remember us and our needs.
Especially do we pray for...
(Make your request here.)
May it also please our Lord
to lend an ear to your supplications in our behalf.
Grant that we may ever pray with fervor and devotion,
resigning ourselves humbly to the divine will,
seeing God’s purpose in all our trials
and knowing that he will leave
no sincere prayer unanswered in some way.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY FOUR
Saint blessed Jude,
you were called to be one of Christ’s chosen apostles
and labored to bring men to a knowledge and love of God;
listen with compassion to those gathered together to honor you and ask;
your intercession.
In this troubled world of ours we have many trials,
difficulties, and temptations.
Plead for us in the heavenly court,
asking that our petitions may be answered,
especially the particular one we have in mind at this moment...
(Make your request here.)
May it please God to answer our prayers
in the way that he knows best,
giving us grace to see his purpose in all things.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY FIVE
O holy St. Jude,
apostle and companion of Christ Jesus,
you have shown us by example
how to lead a life of zeal and devotion.
We humbly entreat you today to hear our prayers and petitions.
Especially do we ask you to obtain for us the following favor...
(Make your request here.)
Grant that in praying for present and future favors
we may not forget the innumerable ones granted in the past
but often return to give thanks.
Humbly we resign ourselves to God’s holy will,
knowing that he alone knows what is best for us
especially in our present needs and necessities.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY SIX
St. Jude,
apostle of Christ and helper in despairing cases,
hear the prayers and petitions
of those who are gathered together in your honor.
In all our needs and desires
may we only seek what is pleasing to God
and what is best for our salvation.
These, our petitions...
(Make your request here.)
we submit to you,
asking you to obtain them for us,
if they are for the good of out souls.
We are resigned to God’s holy will in all things,
knowing that he will leave no sincere prayer unanswered
in some way though it may be in a way unexpected by us.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY SEVEN
O holy apostle Saint Jude,
in whose honor we are gathered today,
may we never forget that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
chose you to be one of twelve apostles.
Because of this and of the martyrdom you suffered for the Faith,
we know you are a close friend of Almighty God.
Therefore we do not hesitate to petition you
in our necessities, especially...
(Make your request here.)
We humbly submit ourselves to the will of God,
knowing full well that no sincere prayer is ever left unanswered.
May we see God’s good and gracious purpose working in all our trials.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY EIGHT
O holy Saint Jude,
apostle of Christ,
pray that we may ever imitate the Divine Master
and live according to His will.
May we cooperate with the grace of God
and ever remain pleasing in His sight.
Especially do we ask you to plead for us
and obtain whatsoever is necessary for our salvation.
Forget not our special petitions...
(Make your request here.)
May we always be thankful to God
for the blessings we have received in the past.
Whatsoever we ask for the present or future,
we submit to the divine will,
realizing that God knows best what is good for us.
We know He will respond to our prayers
and petitions in one way or another.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
DAY NINE
O holy Saint Jude,
apostle and martyr,
grant that we may so dispose our lives
that we may always be pleasing to God.
In working out our salvation in this life
we have many needs and necessities.
Today we turn to you,
asking you to intercede for us
and obtain for us the favors we ask of God.
Especially do we petition for...
(Make your request here.)
May we not so much seek temporal good
but rather what will avail our souls,
knowing that it will profit us nothing
if we gain the whole world yet suffer the loss of our soul.
Therefore, may we incline ourselves toward the divine will,
seeing God’s good and gracious purpose in all our trials.
Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us!
My Jesus, mercy!
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Novena to St. Dymphna
(For the mentally afflicted.)O God, we humbly beseech You
through Your servant, St. Dymphna,
who sealed with her blood
the love she bore You,
to grant relief to those
who suffer from mental afflictions
and nervous disorders, especially...
(Mention the person's name here.)
St. Dymphna,
helper of the mentally afflicted,
pray for us.
Glory be to the Father...
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Novena To
St. Blaise
Begin
by reciting this prayer...
Almighty and Eternal God!
With lively faith and reverently worshiping Thy Divine Majesty,
I prostrate myself before Thee
and invoke with filial trust Thy supreme bounty and mercy.
Illumine the darkness of my intellect
with a ray of Thy heavenly light
and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love,
that I may contemplate the great virtues
and merits of the saint in whose honor I make this novena,
and following his example imitate,
like him, the life of Thy divine Son.
Moreover, I beseech Thee to grant graciously,
through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper,
the petition which through him I humbly place before Thee,
devoutly saving, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Vouchsafe graciously to hear it,
if it redounds to Thy greater glory
and to the salvation of my soul.
Amen.
Prayer in honor of St. Blaise
O GOD,
deliver us through the intercession
of Thy holy bishop and martyr Blaise,
from all evil of soul and body,
especially from all ills of the throat;
and grant us the grace to make a good confession
in the confident hope of obtaining Thy pardon,
and ever to praise with worthy lips Thy most holy name.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Invocation of St. Blaise
St. BLAISE,
gracious benefactor of mankind
and faithful servant of God,
who for the love of our Saviour
did suffer so many tortures with patience and resignation;
I invoke thy powerful intercession.
Preserve me from all evils of soul and body.
Because of thy great merits God endowed thee
with the special grace to help
those that suffer from ills of the throat;
relieve and preserve me from them,
so that I may always be able to fulfill my duties,
and with the aid of God's grace perform good works.
I invoke thy help as special physician of souls,
that I may confess my sins sincerely
in the holy sacrament of Penance
and obtain their forgiveness.
I recommend to thy merciful intercession
also those who unfortunately concealed a sin in confession.
Obtain for them the grace to accuse themselves sincerely
and contritely of the sin they concealed,
of the sacrilegious confessions
and communions they made,
and of all the sins they committed since then,
so that they may receive pardon,
the grace of God,
and the remission of the eternal punishment.
Amen.
Prayer
My LORD and my God!
I offer up to Thee my petition
in union with the bitter passion
and death of Jesus Christ, Thy Son,
together with the merits of His immaculate
and blessed Mother, Mary ever virgin,
and of all the saints,
particularly with those of the holy Helper
in whose honor I make this novena.
Look down upon me,
merciful Lord!
Grant me Thy grace and Thy love,
and graciously hear my prayer.
Amen.____________________________________________________
A Novena
to the Sacred HeartO Sacred and adorable Heart of Jesus!
Furnace of Eternal charity!
Ocean of infinite mercy!
Consolation of the afflicted!
Refuge of sinners!
and Hope of the whole world!
I most fervently adore Thee,
and unite my heart,
my affections,
and supplications,
to the perpetual homage Thou Thyself renderest
to the Divinity on our Altars.
Most amiable Heart,
which hast loved us with an eternal love,
supply Thyself for my insensibility,
and receive my desire at least of loving Thee
with all the ardour and sincerity Thou so justly meritest.
But remember, O adorable Heart!
that Thou hast not disclosed Thyself to us
only as an object of our adorations;
Thou desirest much more to engage our love,
and to become the ground
and motive of our loving confidence.
For this end,
Thou wert pierced through with a lance on the Cross;
and for the same purpose Thou remainest
a daily Victim of Thine own love on our Altars.
O infinitely compassionate Heart of Jesus!
which was overwhelmed with sorrow in the Garden of Olives,
at the view of our spiritual and corporal miseries,
I recur of Thee now with all the confidence Thou desirest
I should have in the extent of Thy power
and the riches of Thy mercy.
Convinced that those things
which are impossible to human beings
are infinitely easy to Thee,
and relying with an humble steadfast faith
on the sacred words of Truth itself,
that whatever we ask the Father
in the Name of Jesus should be granted,
I now most humbly implore in that adorable Name,
in virtue of that promise,
and through the abundant mercies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
the particular favour I petition for in this Novena.
- (Specify it.)
O blessed saint Gertrude!
and all you glorious servants of Christ;
who while on earth were particularly devoted
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
join your prayers with mine,
and implore from the Divine Object of all your devotion
the obtaining of the petition which I now make,
and specially offer up through your intercession.
Beg likewise, from this adorable Heart,
which has dominion over all hearts,
and could in a moment change the most obdurate,
to have compassion on those who are
in the dreadful state of mortal sin,
and to open to us the treasure of its mercy
at the hour of our death.
Amen.___________________________________________________
Novena To Saint Monica
Exemplary Mother of the Great Augustine,
You perserveringly pursued your wayward
son
Not with wild threats
But with prayerful cries to heaven.
Intercede for all mothers in our day
So that they may learn
To draw their children to God.
Teach them how to remain
Close to their children,
Even the prodigal sons and
daughters
Who have sadly gone astray.
Dear St. Monica,
troubled wife and mother,
Many sorrows pierced your heart
During your lifetime.
Yet you never despaired or lost
faith.
With confidence, persistence and profound faith,
You prayed daily for the conversion
Of your beloved husband,
Patricius
And your beloved son, Augustine.
Grant me
that same fortitude,
Patience and trust in the Lord.
Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,
That God may favorably
hear my plea
For
(mention your petition here)
And grant me the grace
To accept his will in all things,
Through Jesus Christ,
our Lord,
In the unity of the Holy Spirit,
One God forever and ever. Amen. ___________________________________________________
Novena to
Saint Maximilian Kolbe O Lord Jesus Christ, who said,
"greater love than this no man has
that a man lay down his life for his friends,"
through the intercession of St. Maximilian Kolbe
whose life illustrated such love, we
beseech you to grant us our petitions...
(State your intention here.)
Through the Militia Immaculata movement,
which Maximilian founded,
he spread a fervent devotion to Our Lady
throughout the world.
He gave up his life for a total stranger
and loved his persecutors,
giving us an example of unselfish love for all men -
a love that was inspired by true devotion to Mary.
Grant, O Lord Jesus,
that we too may give ourselves entirely
without reserve to the love
and service of our Heavenly Queen
in order to better love
and serve our fellowman
in imitation of your humble servant, Maximilian.
Amen.
Recite the following prayers...
3 Hail Mary...
1 Glory Be...
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