Novena to St. Charles Borromeo
October 26 – November 3
Glorious St.
Charles, by the joy which you found from tender infancy in the practices of piety,
obtain for me, I pray, a constant and tender affection for all religious
exercises.
Glory be
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.
O glorious St.
Charles, model for ecclesiastics, by your generous detachment from all worldly
concerns and by your zeal for the glory of God, and the relief of the poor,
obtain for me, I pray, the grace to apply myself, like you, faithfully to all
the duties which belong to the holy state to which it has pleased God to call
me.
Glory be
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.
O glorious St.
Charles, whose care it was to observe in the most minute details and most
perfectly the discipline of holy Church, obtain for me, I pray, the grace ever
to love tenderly and observe exactly our holy Rule and Customs.
Glory be
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.
O glorious St.
Charles, who always prepared for death by the sanctity of your life, and
accepted it with holy joy when it overtook you in the midst of your most glorious
career: obtain for me, I pray, the grace always to accept, with Christian
resignation, all that is painful to the senses which it shall please the Lord
to send me; and that my life may be a continual preparation for death; so that
when I arrive at my great passage, instead of feeling the terror of the sinner,
I may enjoy the peace of the just, a prelude to eternal blessedness with the
elect in heaven.
Glory be
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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