Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Colette Novena
Prayed for expectant mothers, sick children, reform of life, trust in poverty, and cheerful fidelity under hardship.
St. Colette is traditionally invoked as patron of expectant mothers, sick children, childless couples, Franciscan reform, poverty.
Saint Colette, anonymous painting, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
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.
Our Father, 10 Hail Marys and Glory be to the Father in honour of Saint Colette. To be said every day of the novena for the following intentions:
For the increase of love for Jesus. For a greater spirit of recollection and prayer. For a more intimate union with God. For a decrease of tepidity and infidelity. For the mortification of self-love. For the strict observance of the Rule. For the spirit of holy poverty. For the conversion of sinners. For the Holy Souls.
Prayer
O God, Who by means of blessed Colette did renew in Thy Church the primitive spirit of poverty and humility, grant, through her merits and prayers, that by faithfully following Christ poor and humble, we may attain to the reward of eternal glory. Through the same Christ our Lord.
Amen.
O glorious St Colette, who from childhood didst seek God alone and wast made a bright light for souls in need of reform, intercede for us in our necessities.
Obtain for us simplicity of heart, trust in Divine Providence, perseverance in prayer, and a cheerful spirit in suffering.
Especially we ask for the grace of
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Help mothers, children, and families who seek your prayers. Help us also to grow in humility and poverty of spirit.
St Colette, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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