NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA
2⃣ NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR
3⃣ NOVENA TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
4⃣ NOVENA TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA
DAY 8 - JUNE 24
Heavenly Father, you have given us the shining example of St. Josemaría Escrivá. You granted him the grace and ability to minister to many when he founded Opus Dei. He shared Your word and taught people how to make their daily life and work holy. For it is in our daily life and work that we can come to know You, O God!
St. Josemaría Escrivá, we know that you are particularly close with God and so we humbly beg you to hear and answer our intentions through the grace of Our Lord.
(State your intentions here…)
O God, we long to have your peace within us. Please show us how to be holy like St. Josemaría Escrivá so that every day we may see Your loving hand in our work, our families, in our friends and in all that we do. Help us to be strong when we face illness and difficulty in life so that we may see Your good and loving hand in all situations.
Today, we come to You with a special request through the intercession of St. Josemaría Escrivá:
Dear God, help us understand that the love that we put into our work is what gives our work value. Please teach us to know the love that comes from offering our work to God and for our neighbour.
PRAYER
St. Josemaría Escrivá, we offer our prayers and intentions into your steadfast hands with the knowledge that you will bring them to the feet of God speedily. As we ask you to pray for our intentions, we pray even more that we may become as close to Our Lord as you are. Only there, close to God, may our hearts be fulfilled. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Josemaría Escrivá, pray for us.
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2⃣ NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR
DAY 7 - JUNE 24
Most Holy Mother of our Saviour, thou alone hast loved Him worthily for thou hast not loved Him in word only, but in deed and in truth; thou hast given the great proof that this love demands, for thou has loved us with a love which being next to His own, never had an equal and which brought thee to sacrifice for our happiness all that was made thine own, even thy Jesus Himself. I can never be dear to thee unless I also love my neighbour with a sincere and generous love. Help me to do so, O Mother of Perpetual Help. Obtain for me a heart like to that of Jesus and thy own, so that I may be meek and humble, patient, compassionate, more ready to forgive than to take offense, and to give than to receive; that thus I may keep my eyes ever open to my own faults, and may close them to those of my neighbour; that I may put up with everything rather than cause pain to another; that severe to myself, I may be full of indulgence towards others, that I may love them in Jesus, and Jesus in them; that by my prayers, my good advice, and good example, I may strive to draw them for their salvation to Jesus and to thee. Amen.
PRAYER
O Mother of Perpetual Succour, behold me a miserable sinner at thy feet; I have recourse to thee and put my trust in thee. O Mother of Mercy have pity upon me. I hear thee called by all the refuge and the hope of sinners, be then my refuge and my hope. Succour me for the love of Jesus Christ; stretch forth thy hand to me a poor sinner, who recommend and dedicate myself to thee as thy perpetual servant. I bless and thank GOD for having in His mercy given me this confidence in thee, the pledge as I believe of my eternal salvation. Alas! Too often in past times have I miserably fallen, because I had not recourse to thee! I know that with thy help I shall conquer. I know that thou will help me if I recommend myself to thee; but I fear lest in the occasion of falling. I should cease to call upon thee and so should lose my soul. This, then, is the grace I seek from thee; and I beg of thee, as far as I know how and can, to obtain it for me; namely, in the assaults of hell, always to have recourse to thee and to say to thee: O Mary help me; Mother of Perpetual Succour, suffer me not to lose my God. Amen.
(Say 3 Hail Mary's to obtain the special favours you seek)
Holy Mary, succour the miserable, help the faint hearted, cheer those that weep, pray for the people, be the advocate of the clergy, intercede for all devout woman; let all feel thine aid who implore thy perpetual succour.
Thou has been made for us, O Lady, a Refuge.
A helper in need and tribulation.
Mother of Perpetual Succour, pray for us.
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3⃣ NOVENA TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
DAY 6 - JUNE 24
HONESTY IN PRAYER
St. Ignatius of Loyola said that we should always speak to Jesus in prayer just as one close friend would speak to another. Don't be afraid to express your real feelings to Jesus – anger, hurt, joy, sorrow, etc. When you've made your complaint or expressed your joy, don't forget one thing - Listen for God's response! It may come in surprising ways.
TODAY'S PRAYER
Jesus, I have to be honest and tell you that there have been times when I've been angry with you and I feel that you've let me down. Help me to trust that you really do have a loving plan for me and for everyone, a plan that most times I find hard to fathom. Amen.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, the needs of your people open your heart in love for each of us. You care for us when we are lost, sympathize with us in loneliness, and comfort us in mourning; you are closest to us where we are weakest. You love us most when we love ourselves least; you forgive us most when we forgive ourselves least; and you call us to spread your love in whatever way we can.
Lord Jesus, your heart is moved with compassion when we are suffering, when we need your help, and when we pray for each other. I ask you to listen to my prayer during this Novena, and grant what I ask.
(State your intentions here...)
If what I ask is not for my own good and the good of others, grant me what is best, that I may build up your kingdom of love in our world. Amen.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
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4⃣ NOVENA TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
DAY 5 - JUNE 24
SILENCE
Immaculate Mother of God, our Mother by grace, we the beloved of thy Immaculate Heart come to thee on this fifth day of this Novena to pray for the grace of Silence.
Blessed Mother Mary, Queen of Peace, exalted above all Angels and Saints, thou partakes in the Heavenly glory of the Beatific Vision of the Blessed Trinity; thou sees God "face to face" even as He Is. (I Cor. 13:12). Obtain for us the grace that everything we speak may be spoken in love and every silence we keep is kept, not in anger, obstinacy, vengefulness or deceitfulness, but in the sacredness that opens hearts to God's Word. As thou pondered the Word of God in thy Immaculate Heart, O Ever-Virgin Mother of God and Mother of men, obtain for us the grace of silence so that we are not bound to the distractions of the world. Rather, emptied of the world, we desire to be filled with the treasures of Divine Grace. It is in holy silence that we can comprehend Divine treasures and the secrets of the King's Sacred Heart.
Good St. Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus Christ and true husband of Mary, thou loved silence upon earth. The Bible does not record a word thou spoke. Yet, in thy silence, thou had the holiest state in life next to Jesus and Mary. By intercession in union with thy sweet spouse, obtain for us, O Glorious St. Joseph, the grace to imitate both interiorly and exteriorly the spirit of thy silence.
PRAYER
O Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in imitation of the silence which reigned in thy home, empty us of worldly noise and distractions so as to hear the voice of the Lord more clearly. Open our hearts to the work of the Holy Angels, who will lead us to faith in and love for the Most Blessed Trinity, the Word made flesh, the Church as the Mystical Body of Jesus and to the highest veneration of God's Mother, the Mother of the Church. May the spirit of materialism never more touch our lives, Heavenly Mother. Help us to be detached from the things of this world, opened in silence to the magnificent melodies of the supernatural. Where our hearts are, there also is our treasure. In the silence of our hearts, "Speak Lord, for thy servant is listening." (I Sam. 3:9)
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.