Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Pantaleon
Mercy for the sick, good health for God's service, patience in illness, and charity through works of mercy.
St. Pantaleon is traditionally invoked as patron of the sick, physicians, healing, patient endurance in illness.
Saint Pantaleon, color reproduction of a painting
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
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Day 1: Patron of the Sick
Begin by placing sickness and weakness before God.
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Opening Prayer
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
Almighty and eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshiping Thy divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before Thee and invoke with filial trust Thy supreme bounty and mercy. Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Thy heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love.
O God, Who didst give to St. Pantaleon the grace of exercising charity toward his fellow-men by distributing his goods to the poor, and hast made him a special patron of the sick, grant that we, too, show our charity by works of mercy; and through the intercession of this Thy servant preserve us from sickness. But if it be Thy will that illness should afflict us, give us the grace to bear it patiently, and let it promote our soul's salvation. Amen.
St. Pantaleon, who during life didst have great pity for the sick and didst often relieve and cure them, pray that I may serve God in health by cheerfully fulfilling my duties, or else bear illness patiently according to His will. Amen.
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