NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE
2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. SEBASTIAN
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1⃣ NOVENA TO INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE
DAY 7 - JANUARY 11
On Your breast, O Child Jesus, shines a Cross. It is the standard of our redemption. I also, O Divine Saviour, have my cross, that, although light, very often weighs me down. Help me to bear it and may the carrying of it be fruitful. You well know weak and worthless I am.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
By Your Divine Infancy, O! Jesus, grant me the grace that I now ask (State your intentions here…) if it is according to Your will and for my true good. Do not look upon my unworthiness, but rather on my faith and show me Your infinite mercy.
V. Blessed be the name of the Lord
R. Now and forever.
PRAYER: O God, who has appointed Your only begotten Son as Saviour of the human race, and wished that He be called Jesus, grant us to be able one day, to contemplate Him face to face in Heaven whose Holy Name we venerate on earth. Amen.
Infant Jesus of Prague: Have mercy on us.
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2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. SEBASTIAN
DAY 1 - JANUARY 11
THE GIFT OF FAITH
Holy Martyr, St. Sebastian, no greater gift could be vouchsafed you than the gift of holy faith. Sanctified in holy baptism you grew in holiness since the days of your childhood. So much has God loved you that He made you a pillar of strength in the early church. Strengthen also my faith, that it may become for me a source of energy for a perfect Christian life and that I too may be a shining example to my fellowmen.
(State your intentions here…)
PRAYER: My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, see me humbly prostrate before Thee to implore Thy mercy. I am a wretched sinner who has lived hitherto in ease and wanton negligence of my Christian duties. How dangerously close have I been in the past to becoming a traitor to Thee! Pardon me, good and merciful Jesus. I will change my life: with ardent love I will adhere to Thee in future and prove myself worthy of being Thy disciple and follower of St. Sebastian. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Sebastian: Pray for us!