PRAY THIS PRAYER WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND WHEN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT. PRAY THESE PRAYERS IN NINE DAYS TO LET GOD ANSWER YOUR REQUEST. _________________________________________________ ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO, PATRON SAINT OF EXAMINEES FIRST PRAYER O GREAT ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO WHO WHILE ON EARTH DID OBTAIN FROM GOD THE GRACE TO BE ASKED AT YOUR EXAMINATION ONLY THE QUESTIONS YOU KNEW, OBTAIN FOR ME A LIKE FAVOUR IN THE EXAMINATIONS FOR WHICH I AM NOW PREPARING. IN RETURN I PROMISE TO MAKE YOU KNOWN AND CAUSE YOU TO BE INVOKED. THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO, PRAY FOR US. AMEN. 3 OUR FATHER… 3 HAIL MARY… 3 GLORY BE… SECOND PRAYER O ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO WHO BY YOUR PRAYER OBTAINED FROM GOD TO BE ASKED AT YOUR EXAMINATION, THE ONLY PREPOSITION YOU KNEW. GRANT THAT I MAY LIKE YOU SUCCEED IN THE (HERE MENTION THE NAME OF EXAMINATION) EXAMINATION. IN RETURN I PROMISE TO MAKE YOU KNOWN AND CAUSE YOU TO BE INVOKED. O ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO PRAY FOR ME. O HOLY GHOST ENLIGHTEN ME. OUR LADY OF GOOD STUDIES PRAY FOR ME SACRED HEART OF JESUS, SEAT OF DIVINE WISDOM, ENLIGHTEN ME. ___________________________________________________ SAINT ANTHONY, PATRON SAINT OF MIRACLES NOVENA PRAYERS: O HOLY ST. ANTHONY, YOU ARE KNOWN FOR THE POWER AND ABUNDANCE OF YOUR MIRACLES. JESUS CAME INTO YOUR ARMS AS A HUMBLE LITTLE CHILD. PRAY FOR ME TO THE CHILD JESUS FOR MY NEEDS AND DESIRES… (MENTION YOUR INTENTIONS) IN IMITATION OF OUR LORD, YOU HAVE GREAT MERCY AND COMPASSION FOR SINNERS. PAY NO ATTENTION TO MY WORTHINESS, BUT INSTEAD ASK GOD TO SHOW HIS GLORY THROUGH THE ANSWER OF MY REQUESTS. ST. ANTHONY, YOU COOPERATED WITH THE GRACE OF GOD IN A RADICAL WAY WITH YOUR LIFE. YOU GAVE EVERYTHING TO CHRIST AND TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. YOUR LIFE GLORIFIED GOD! YOU ARE AN EXAMPLE OF HOLINESS THAT I WILL TRY TO FOLLOW. YOU ARE IN HEAVEN PRAISING GOD WITH A PARTICULAR CLOSENESS TO THE KING OF KINGS. WITH YOUR SEAT OF HONOR, PLEASE BEG GOD TO BOTH ANSWER MY REQUEST AND BRING ME TO ETERNAL REST WITH YOU. PRAY ONE OUR FATHER, ONE HAIL MARY, AND GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, IN HONOR OF SAINT ANTHONY. SAINT ANTHONY, PRAY FOR US! AMEN. ____________________________________________________ SAINT CLAIRE OF ASSISI NOVENA PRAYER DEAR ST. CLARE, AS A YOUNG GIRL YOU IMITATED YOUR MOTHER’S LOVE FOR THE POOR OF YOUR NATIVE ASSISI. INSPIRED BY THE PREACHING OF ST. FRANCIS, WHO SANG ENTHUSIASTICALLY OF HIS LORD JESUS AND LADY POVERTY, YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS AT NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE, ALLOWING ST. FRANCIS TO CUT OFF YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR AND INVEST YOU WITH THE FRANCISCAN HABIT. ALL THROUGH YOUR LIFE YOU OFFERED YOUR GREAT SUFFERING FOR YOUR SISTERS, THE POOR CLARES, AND THE CONVERSION OF SOULS. YOU GREATLY AIDED ST. FRANCIS WITH HIS NEW ORDER, CARRYING ON HIS SPIRIT IN THE FRANCISCANS AFTER HIS DEATH. MOST OF ALL YOU HAD A DEEP LOVE OF JESUS IN THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT, WHICH FUELED YOUR VOCATION TO LOVE AND CARE FOR THE POOR. PLEASE PRAY FOR ME (MENTION YOUR REQUEST) THAT I WILL SEEK TO KEEP JESUS AS MY FIRST LOVE, AS YOU DID. HELP ME TO GROW IN LOVE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, TO CARE FOR THE POOR, AND TO OFFER MY WHOLE LIFE TO GOD. HEAVENLY FATHER, THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF ST. CLARE. THROUGH HER INTERCESSION, PLEASE HEAR AND ANSWER MY PRAYER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS YOUR SON. AMEN. O MOST HOLY TRINITY, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, WE PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME AND THE WONDERS OF GRACE YOU WORKED IN YOUR SERVANT, SAINT CLARE. THROUGH HER POWERFUL INTERCESSION, GRANT US THE FAVOURS WE BEG IN THIS NOVENA, ABOVE ALL THE GRACE TO LIVE AND DIE AS SHE DID IN YOUR MOST HOLY LOVE. AMEN. V. PRAY FOR US, SAINT CLARE. R. THAT WE MAY BE MADE WORTHY OF THE PROMISES OF CHRIST. LET US PRAY: WE PRAY YOU, LORD, GRANT US YOUR SERVANTS WHO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL OF BLESSED CLARE YOUR VIRGIN, BY HER INTERCESSION, TO BE PARTAKERS OF THE JOYS OF HEAVEN AND COHEIRS WITH YOUR ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, WHO BEING GOD, LIVES AND REIGNS FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN. ____________________________________________________ ST. THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS NOVENA PRAYER MOST GRACIOUS LITTLE ROSE QUEEN, REMEMBER YOUR PROMISES OF NEVER LETTING ANY REQUEST MADE TO YOU GO UNANSWERED, OF SENDING DOWN A SHOWER OF ROSES, AND OF COMING DOWN TO EARTH TO DO GOOD. FULL OF CONFIDENCE IN YOUR POWER WITH THE SACRED HEART, I IMPLORE YOUR INTERCESSION IN MY BEHALF AND BEG OF YOU TO OBTAIN THE REQUEST I SO ARDENTLY DESIRE: (MENTION IT). HOLY “LITTLE THERESE,” REMEMBER YOUR PROMISE “TO DO GOOD UPON EARTH” AND SHOWER DOWN YOUR “ROSES” ON THOSE WHO INVOKE YOU. OBTAIN FOR US FROM GOD THE GRACES WE HOPE FOR FROM HIS INFINITE GOODNESS. AMEN. ____________________________________________________ THE TWENTY-FOUR “GLORY BE TO THE FATHER’S” NOVENA “HOLY TRINITY, GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY GHOST, I THANK THEE FOR ALL THE BLESSINGS AND FAVORS THOU HAST SHOWERED UPON THE SOUL OF THY SERVANT THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS, DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR YEARS SHE SPENT HERE ON EARTH, AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE MERITS OF THIS THY MOST BELOVED SAINT, I BESEECH THEE TO GRANT ME THIS FAVOR, IF IT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THY MOST HOLY WILL AND IS NOT AN OBSTACLE TO MY SALVATION.” AFTER THIS PRAYER, FOLLOW THE TWENTY-FOUR “GLORY BE TO THE FATHER’S,” BETWEEN EACH OF WHICH MAY BE INCLUDED THIS SHORT PRAYER: “SAINT THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS, PRAY FOR US.”
