NOVENA TO SAINT PATRICK
(Feast Day, March 17)
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NOVENA PRAYER
Prayer for each day:O, Almighty God, we humbly offer these devotions in honor of thy servant Patrick, our apostle and patron; and we humbly beseech Thee, through his merits and intercession, to grant us the favor we ask.
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Prayer for Day 1:
O glorious St. Patrick, model of charity, obtain for me by thy merits and intercession, the grace of perfect charity, that I may love God above all things, and my neighbor as myself. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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SECOND DAY (March 9):
Prayer for Day 2:
O great St. Patrick, great example of lively faith and obedience to the least command of superiors, and to all the ordinances of our Holy Church, obtain for me the grace to submit implicitly to my spiritual guides, and ever to keep inviolably the precepts of the Church. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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THIRD DAY (March 10):
Prayer for Day 3:
O great St. Patrick, ever the most humble in thy life and conversation, obtain for me the grace of a true and profound humility, and the grace to abhor all pride, and to resist every temptation to vain glory. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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FOURTH DAY (March 11):
Prayer for Day 4:
O great St. Patrick, true lover of little children, obtain for us a share in the tenderness and true charity with which you were animated. We confide to your especial care all the children for whom we are bound to pray, and beseech you to take them under your especial protection. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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FIFTH DAY (March 12):
Prayer for Day 5:
O great St. Patrick, obtain for us some share in your wonderful spirit of zeal for souls; and pray for us that we may never, either by word or act, endanger our own eternal salvation or the salvation of others. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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SIXTH DAY (March 13):
Prayer for Day 6:
O great St. Patrick, model of mortification, obtain for us the true spirit of penance, and especially the grace to resist generously whatever sensual inclination we are most tempted to indulge. Intercede also, we beseech thee, for those unhappy persons addicted to the painful and degrading vice of intemperance, and obtain for them the grace to conquer their sinful propensities. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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SEVENTH DAY (March 14):
Prayer for Day 7:
Obtain for me, I beseech of you, O great St. Patrick, an ardent zeal of God’s glory and the advancement of religion, that following your example I may join in every good work to the utmost extent possible. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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EIGHTH DAY (March 15):
Prayer for Day 8:
O great St. Patrick, model of faithfulness in duty, obtain for me the grace to fulfill all my duties faithfully, and to do all from a pure intention of pleasing God, and with a cheerful spirit. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
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NINTH DAY (March 16):
Prayer for Day 9:
O great St. Patrick, pray for us, that we also may one day obtain the crown of perseverance and a bright and glorious reward for all our sufferings. Take us, thy children, into thy special care and keeping, and do not suffer any of those for whom thou didst pray so fervently and labor so zealously, to be ensnared by heresy or tempted to deadly sin. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Saint Patrick, Pray for us.[/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs]Image credit: CC BY-SA 4.0, by Farragutful; image modified.