Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to Saint Giles
Prayed for repentance, a good confession, freedom from sin, peace of conscience, and a holy death.
St. Giles is traditionally invoked as patron of a good confession, repentance, disabled people, peace of conscience, holy death.
Saint Giles, from a church wall painting in Stockholm
Pray This Novena
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Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.
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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.
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Principal Prayer for Each Day
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
Almighty and eternal God, with lively faith and reverently worshipping Your Divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before You and invoke with filial trust Your supreme generosity and mercy. Illuminate the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Your heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Your Divine Love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of Saint Giles and, following his example, imitate the life of Your Divine Son.
Moreover, I beseech You to graciously grant me, through the merits and intercession of this powerful helper, the petition which I humbly place before You, devoutly saying: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it is to Your greater glory and the salvation of my soul. Amen.
O God, we beseech You to grant us through the merits and intercession of Saint Giles to flee from the vanity and praise of this world, to avoid the occasions of sin, to cleanse our hearts by a sincere confession, to leave this world in Your love and rich in good works, and to find You gracious on the day of judgment. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Giles, obtain for me a contrite heart, a good confession, and peace of conscience before God. Amen.
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