Traditional Catholic Novena

Novena to St. Gerard

Faith, detachment, love of God and neighbor, purity, obedience, and conformity to the crucified Christ.

St. Gerard is traditionally invoked as patron of mothers, pregnancy, unborn children, purity.

9 daysFeast: October 160 of 9 days marked complete

Saint Gerard Majella, devotional portrait

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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About This Novena

The St. Gerard novena is rich in virtues people often separate from one another: faith, detachment, charity, innocence, and obedience. It treats sanctity as total conformity to Christ, not a single devotional specialty.

Traditionally prayed for

Often prayed for mothers, pregnancy, unborn children, and purity.

Usual timing

October 7 through October 15

Private intention

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Day 1: Full of Faith

Begin by asking for a firm and living Catholic faith.

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Opening Prayer

Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.

Saint Gerard, ever full of faith, obtain for me that, believing firmly all that the Church of God proposes to my belief, I may strive to secure through a holy life the joys of eternal happiness.

O Almighty and Everlasting God, who didst draw to thyself Saint Gerard, even from his tenderest years, making him conformable to the Image of Thy Crucified Son, grant, we beseech Thee, that imitating his example, we may be made like unto the same Divine Image. Amen.

V. Pray for us, O Saint Gerard. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

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Traditional Catholic Novena

Novena to St. Gerard

9 daysFeast: October 16

Often prayed for faith, detachment, love of God and neighbor, purity, obedience, and conformity to the crucified Christ.

Opening Prayer

Saint Gerard, ever full of faith, obtain for me that, believing firmly all that the Church of God proposes to my belief, I may strive to secure through a holy life the joys of eternal happiness.

V. Pray for us, O Saint Gerard. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Daily themes

Use each daily focus below, then pray the principal prayer above. The same prayer is repeated each day. October 7 through October 15

Day 1: Full of Faith
Begin by asking for a firm and living Catholic faith.
Day 2: Care Little for Earthly Goods
Pray for detachment from passing goods.
Day 3: Seraph of Love
Ask for greater love of God and neighbor.
Day 4: Spotless Lily of Purity
Beg for purity and innocence in struggle.
Day 5: Model of Holy Obedience
Pray for willing submission to God's will.
Day 6: Conformable to the Crucified Son
Ask to be made more like Christ in suffering and fidelity.
Day 7: Joys of Eternal Happiness
Keep your eyes on heaven rather than temporary comfort.
Day 8: Worthy of the Promises
Pray to live in a way worthy of Christ's promises.
Day 9: Imitating His Example
End by asking for steady imitation of St. Gerard in the small things.