NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARIA GORETTI
2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. BENEDICT
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARIA GORETTI
DAY 8 - JULY 4
O St. Maria Goretti, patron of youth, please pray for the children in my life and the youth across the world.
Please pray that their faith may be as strong as yours was, when you were 11 years old.
Pray that I may do what I can to support children in their faith, and to encourage them to love our Lord, to put Him first in their lives, and to follow His commandments. Amen.
Please also pray for (state your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Maria Goretti: Pray for us!
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2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. BENEDICT
DAY 3 - JULY 4
St. Benedict, because of your work as a father in the monasteries, certain evil people wanted to poison you. You did not want to compromise the monastic ideals of silence and mortification, yet to their amazement, you drunk their poison and nothing happened to you. Jesus protected you. We live in a world today that is heavily poisoned by pollution and degradation of our forests and seas. Make us sensitive to the presence of these poisons and give us the wisdom not to be blinded by progress and easy money. Inspire us to contribute our part in making our world a better place to live in. Amen.
PRAYER: Glorious St. Benedict who taught us the way to perfection by the practice of mortification, humility, obedience, prayer, silence, and detachment from the world, I kneel at your feet and humbly beg you to take my present needs under your special protection (here make your request). Recommend it to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace to meet God face to face with you, Mary, and all the angels and saints to praise him through all eternity. O most powerful St. Benedict, do not let me lose my soul, but obtain for me the grace of winning my way to heaven and there worship and enjoy the Most Holy and Adorable Trinity forever and ever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Intercede for us, O holy father Saint Benedict.
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY: O God, Who hast called us from the vanity of the world, and Who dost incite us to the reward of a heavenly vocation under the guidance of the holy patriarch and founder, Saint Benedict, inspire and purify our hearts and pour forth on us Thy grace, whereby we may persevere in Thee. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.