Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Catherine of Siena
Prayer, purity, solitude with God, penance, charity, and zeal for holiness in one's state of life.
St. Catherine of Siena is traditionally invoked as patron of prayer, purity, charity toward the sick, zeal for holiness.
Saint Catherine of Siena, devotional painting from Santa Maria del Rosario in Prati
Pray This Novena
Start with day 1
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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Private intention
This stays only on this device and appears at the intention moment in the prayer.
Day 1 of 9
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Day 1: Spirit of Prayer
Begin by asking for the love and practice of prayer.
Pause here for your intention.
Opening Prayer
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
Catherine, fairest and most glorious of the daughters of St. Dominic, by that spirit of prayer, which was your delight from your infancy, obtain for us the love and practice of prayer, and the grace so to converse with God as to become daily more pleasing to Him.
By that especial love which you, O great saint, bore to the virtue of purity, obtain for us the grace to be always pure in mind and heart.
By that heroic charity which led you to minister to the poor and sick, obtain for us the grace to be at all times generous in service and patient in humiliation. Amen.
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