Traditional Catholic Novena
9-Hour Novena
A traditional Catholic 9-Hour novena for urgent needs, immediate help, and confidence in prayer. Traditionally prayed Nine consecutive hours.
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About This Novena
The 9-Hour Novena takes the confidence of the Infant of Prague devotion and compresses it into a single urgent day. Its intensity lies in repetition, trust, and refusal to give up hope too quickly.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for urgent needs, immediate help, confidence in prayer, and trust in the Infant Jesus.
Usual timing
Nine consecutive hours
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Hour 1: Ask and You Shall Receive
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This hour's prayer focus
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Prayer sequence
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Urgent hourly prayer
O Jesus, Who has said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you," through the intercession of Mary, Thy most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer will be granted.
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O Jesus, Who has said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, Thy most holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask Thy Father in Thy Name that my prayer will be granted.
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O Jesus, Who has said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass away," through the intercession of Mary, Thy most holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
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About this novena
Description
The 9-Hour Novena takes the confidence of the Infant of Prague devotion and compresses it into a single urgent day. Its intensity lies in repetition, trust, and refusal to give up hope too quickly.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
urgent needs, immediate help, confidence in prayer, trust in the Infant Jesus
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for urgent needs, immediate help, confidence in prayer, and trust in the Infant Jesus.
Usual timing
Nine consecutive hours
Original statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague