Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Roch
Relief from illness, bodily and spiritual health, patience in suffering, and help in times of plague or disease.
St. Roch is traditionally invoked as patron of plague, contagious illness, the sick, pilgrims.
Saint Roch, Lorenzo Lotto
Pray This Novena
Start with day 1
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Day 1: Patron of the Sick
Begin by asking St. Roch to look with pity on those who suffer in body or mind.
Opening Prayer
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
O Blessed St. Roch, Patron of the sick, have pity on those who lie upon a bed of suffering. Your power was so great when you were in this world, that by the sign of the Cross, many were healed of their diseases. Now that you are in heaven, your power is no less. Offer to God our sighs and tears and obtain for us the physical and spiritual health we seek:
Pause here for the grace you are asking.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Roch: Pray for us, that we may be relieved from all diseases of body and soul. (Repeat 3 times)
Lord Jesus, may Thy will be done.
Repeated prayer cue
Pray one time each: Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
St. Roch, pray for us.
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