Novena in preparation for the feast of
St. Francis of Assisi
September 25 – October 3
Glorious Saint Francis, who
voluntarily renounced all the comforts and riches of your home to follow more
perfectly the life of poverty of Jesus Christ: Obtain for us, we pray, a
generous contempt of all things in this world, that we may secure the true and
eternal things of heaven.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and
to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O glorious Saint Francis, who during
the whole course of your life continually wept over the passion of the
Redeemer, and labored most zealously for the salvation of souls: Obtain for us,
we pray, the grace of weeping continually over those sins by which we have
crucified afresh Our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may attain to be of the number
of those who shall eternally bless His supreme mercy.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and
to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O glorious Saint Francis, who, loving
above all things suffering and the Cross, merited to bear in your body the
miraculous stigmata, by which you became a living image of Jesus Christ
crucified: Obtain for us, we pray, the grace to bear in our bodies the
mortifications of Christ, that we may merit one day to receive the consolations
which are infallibly promised to all those who now weep.
"If we be dead with Christ
Jesus, we shall live also with Him," says the Apostle; "if we suffer,
we shall also reign with Him."
Pray for us, Saint Francis, that we
may obtain the graces and favors we ask for in this novena; pray for us,
especially, that we may obtain the grace of perseverance; of a holy death and a
happy eternity.
Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in
Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is
with thee; Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour
of death. Amen.
Glory Be (5x)
Glory be, to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall
be, world without end. Amen.
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