NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ DIVINE MERCY NOVENA
2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. VINCENT FERRER
3⃣ ANNUNCIATION NOVENA
4⃣ NOVENA TO ST. GEMMA GALGANI
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1⃣ DIVINE MERCY NOVENA
DAY 7 - APRIL 4
INTENTION
Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ESPECIALLY VENERATE AND GLORIFY MY MERCY, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.
NOVENA PRAYERS
Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:
Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.
Pray the "DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET".
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2⃣ NOVENA TO ST. VINCENT FERRER
DAY 9 - APRIL 4
FOR THE DESIRE OF HEAVEN
O St. Vincent Ferrer, during the time you were on earth, you used to repeat in your dejected hours, “One will rest in the other life.” It is done, you are in eternal peace, and eternal happiness. I desire to follow you one day. Until then, I hear you saying to me: “You should work and fight as long as you are in the world.” Teach me then to work for the salvation of my soul, to spread the good news and good example and to do good towards those around me in order that I will receive the happiness of the Elect with you. Holy Priest of St. Dominic, I have confidence in your intercession. Pray for me during this novena especially for..
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
PRAYER: O my protector, St. Vincent Ferrer, as the eternal God has deposited in you an inexhaustible treasure of grace and of supernatural virtues, hear my earnest petition, and help me with your intercession, more powerful now even than when you were on earth. Hence with blind confidence do I cast myself at your feet, there to place my requests for all those in whom I am concerned but more particularly for (special favour). O glorious saint, let not my confidence in you be deceived. Present for me, to the Divine Majesty, your suppliant prayers and watch over my soul. Should sorrow and trials increase, so also will my rejoicing increase, and may my patience grow with each day, that I may thus save my soul. Amen.
St. Vincent Ferrer: Pray for us!
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3⃣ ANNUNCIATION NOVENA
DAY 6 - APRIL 4
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE INCARNATION
The Holy Spirit shows us His love and power in the Incarnation. It was He that inspired the prayers that hastened it. "The Spirit himself asks for us with unspeakable groanings" (Rom 8:26). Desire to consecrate our energies to the honour of this mystery. He prepared the Blessed Virgin and filled her with grace that she might be a fit mother for the All Holy Son of God. He was poured forth in Our Lord and adorned His humanity with every grace. He guided Him, "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit" (Mt 4: 1), and worked in Him miracles, and appeared visibly to declare Our Lord's divinity. "The heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon him" (Mt 3:16). Ask the Holy Spirit for His grace.
PRAYER: I greet you, Ever-blessed Virgin, Mother of God, Throne of Grace, miracle of Almighty Power! I greet you, Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity and Queen of the Universe, Mother of Mercy and refuge of sinners!
Most loving Mother, attracted by your beauty and sweetness, and by your tender compassion, I confidently turn to you, miserable as I am, and beg of you to obtain for me from your dear Son the favour I request in this novena.
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Obtain for me also, Queen of heaven, the most lively contrition for my many sins and the grace to imitate closely those virtues which you practiced so faithfully, especially humility, purity and obedience. Above all, I beg you to be my Mother and Protectress, to receive me into the number of your devoted children, and to guide me from your high throne of glory.
Do not reject my petitions, Mother of Mercy! Have pity on me, and do not abandon me during life or at the moment of my death. Amen.
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4⃣ NOVENA TO ST. GEMMA GALGANI
DAY 3 - APRIL 4
Oh most Divine Lord, we humbly prostrate ourselves before Thy Infinite Majesty, and we adore Thee and dedicate to Thy glory the devout prayers which we now present to Thee, as an act of devotion to your servant, St. Gemma Galgani, whose intercession we are now imploring.
O most loving virgin St. Gemma, with a fervent love for Jesus you suffered immensely for the conversion of sinners as a victim for sin, and you loved others intensely out of love for God. Do not forget us then, who remain here on earth, and look down with kindness on those of us who implore thee in the confident hope of receiving this favor through thy loving intercession..
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
PRAYER: O God, Who fashioned thy servant Saint Gemma into a likeness of Thy Crucified Son, grant us through her intercession the favor that we humbly request, and through the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Thy Son, may we be united with You for all eternity. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Gemma Galgani: Pray for us!