Novena to Saint Francis of Assisi

Novena to Saint Francis of Assisi

Glorious Saint Francis, who voluntarily renounced all the comforts and riches of your home to follow more perfectly the life of poverty and abnegation 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.

Say the Glory be....

O glorious Saint Francis, who during the whole course of your life continually wept over the passion of the Redeemer, and labor 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.

Say the Glory be....

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." (2 Tim. 2:11-12)

Pray for us, Saint Francis, that we may obtain the graces and favors we ask for in this novena; (mention these) pray for us, especially, that we may obtain the grace of perseverance; of a holy death and a happy eternity.

Say 5 times The Our Father...

Say 5 times The Hail Mary...

Say 5 times The Glory be....

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