NOVENA PRAYERS

1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH

2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARGARET CLITHEROW
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH

DAY 9 - MARCH 18

PRAYER BEFORE THE NOVENA: Great Saint Joseph, prostrate at thy feet with feelings of unlimited confidence, we beg thee to bless the Novena that I pray in thy honor. I will meditate upon thy virtues; grant that I may learn fully to appreciate them. The knowledge of them will be the source of great confusion for me because of the poverty and destitution of my soul. Great dispenser of the heavenly treasures, assist me in my poverty, help me to display thy virtues in my own soul. "Thou art never invoked in vain," says the seraphic St. Teresa of Jesus; be thou to me what thou hast been to that Spouse of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; graciously hearken to me as thou didst hearken to her. Amen.

SAINT JOSEPH, MODEL OF DETACHMENT

St. Joseph loved poverty because it detaches man from all passing and perishable goods, delivers the soul from dangerous obstacles, and from a thousand evils and cares, and permits him to keep his eyes raised towards Heaven, instead of stooping, like a slave, toward the earth. St. Joseph loved poverty, because he saw it practiced in the highest degree by Jesus Christ. Did he not regard it as a hidden and priceless treasure, when he contemplated Jesus in His abnegation, when he saw Him stretch out His divine hands to ask for the most necessary needs of life?

St. Joseph suffered the privations of life with patience, without murmur of complaint, using his poverty to detach himself more and more from worldly goods, and to seek the goods of Heaven.

(State your intentions here…)

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...

PRAYER: St. Joseph, make me understand the excellence of poverty. Grant that I may enter into the interior dispositions which animated thee in regard to that virtue. Disclose to me the snares of riches, the dangers which are attached to them, the solicitude which they engender. Make me understand how much God favours us, when he refuses us riches, since he furnishes us a precious occasion to detach us from ourselves and from creatures, and to increase our merit for Heaven. Amen.

Protector of Holy Church, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.
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2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. MARGARET CLITHEROW

DAY 2 - MARCH 18

REFLECTION: CONVERTED TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH DESPITE PERSECUTION

PRAYER: St. Margaret Clitherow, you were raised as a Protestant and married a Protestant. But your love for God led you to convert to His Catholic Church. Please bring my petitions before God Whom you loved so dearly! Catholics were being persecuted on account of their religion in your country, but you boldly chose to become a Catholic anyway. You followed God's call despite the threat of death and torture for your Faith. Pray for me, that I may be as courageous a servant of God as you were. Pray that I may grow in devotion to God and His Church each day. Please also pray for,

(State your intentions here…)

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...

St. Margaret Clitherow: Pray for us!