Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Robert Bellarmine Novena
Prayed for catechists, canon lawyers, clear doctrine, love of truth, and the return of wandering souls to the Church.
St. Robert Bellarmine is traditionally invoked as patron of canonists, canon lawyers, catechists, catechumens, love of truth.
Saint Robert Bellarmine, anonymous Italian School, 17th century
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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.
God our Father, You gave Robert Bellarmine wisdom and goodness to defend the faith of Your Church.
By his prayers may we always rejoice in the profession of our faith.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
O God, who did adorn Saint Robert, Your Bishop and Doctor, with marvelous learning and virtue to expose the deceptions of error and to defend the rights of the Apostolic See, grant by his merits and intercession, that love for the truth may increase in us, and the souls that do wander may return to the unity of thy Church.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
V. The Lord loved him, and adorned him, alleluia. R. He clothed him with a robe of glory, alleluia.
O Doctor right excellent, O light of Holy Church, O blessed Robert, lover of the divine law, entreat for us the Son of God, especially for
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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
Saint Robert Bellarmine, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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