Traditional Catholic Novena

9-Hour Novena

Urgent help through the Infant Jesus, confident petition, and grateful trust in His mercy.

Infant Jesus is traditionally invoked as patron of urgent needs, immediate help, confidence in prayer, trust in the Infant Jesus.

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Original statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague

Original statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague

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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Hour 1: Ask and You Shall Receive

This hour's prayer focus

Begin with simple confidence in Christ's promise to hear prayer.

Prayer sequence

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

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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Often said for

urgent needsimmediate helpconfidence in prayertrust in the Infant Jesus