Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Matthias Apostle Novena
Prayed for perseverance, uprightness of life, freedom from addiction, hope, and wholehearted service to God.
St. Matthias the Apostle is traditionally invoked as patron of alcoholics, perseverance, hope, carpenters, tailors, uprightness of life.
Saint Matthias, Lucas Cranach the Elder
Pray This Novena
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Day 1 of 9
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer below, and mark the day complete when you finish.
Private intention
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Day 1
Pray the principal prayer below for this day of the novena.
Principal Prayer for Each Day
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
O Glorious Saint Matthias, in God’s design it fell upon you to take the place of the unfortunate Judas who betrayed Jesus, his Master.
You were selected by the twofold sign of the uprightness of your life and the call of the Holy Spirit.
Obtain for us the grace to practice the same uprightness of life and to be called by that same Spirit to wholehearted service of the Church and our world.
Please help all who struggle with addiction to alcoholism or other addictions to experience this same grace and come to live in the serenity and joy of a life surrendered to God.
We beg your intercession, dear glorious saint, to ask God today to grant the favors we now place with confidence in your hands, especially
Pause here for the grace you are asking.
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 Glory Be
St. Matthias, pray for us!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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