NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARIA GORETTI
2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. BENEDICT
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARIA GORETTI
DAY 9 - JULY 5
O St. Maria Goretti, patron of victims of rape, please pray for all those who have been sexually assaulted.
Pray for their healing, for comfort, and for peace for them.
Please pray that we, as a society, may be able to better protect those who are survivors of sexual assault.
And please pray for justice for their attackers, but most of all, for their contrition and conversion.
Please also pray for (state your intentions here…).
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us, Amen.
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2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. BENEDICT
DAY 4 - JULY 5
St. Benedict, you understood prayer as basking in God's presence, experiencing his loving hands in our day to day struggles. While you worked in the fields, your heart sang hymns to your creator and you offered him a constant prayer of thanksgiving. May we imitate you in your unending prayer to the most High, wherever we go and whatever we do, may we remember Jesus and offer him our thanksgiving. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Benedict, pray for us.
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.
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.