Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena for One Recently Deceased
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Fisheaters devotional novena index, Novena for One Recently Deceased
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- A traditional Catholic novena for One Recently Deceased with prayers for the recently deceased. Traditionally prayed For nine days after a death.
- Often prayed for
- Mercy, purification, peace, angelic protection, and eternal rest for a recently departed soul.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- Any time after a death
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About This Novena
This novena is tender and sober. It does not speculate; it simply keeps bringing the departed soul before God with mercy, peace, purification, and the hope of paradise.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the recently deceased, mourning families, eternal rest, and mercy for the dead.
Usual timing
For nine days after a death
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Day 1: Deliver It Not into the Hands of the Enemy
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Pray that the departed soul be received by the holy angels and conducted to paradise.
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Opening Prayer
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Eternal rest grant unto him or her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him or her. May he or she rest in peace. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
This novena is tender and sober. It does not speculate; it simply keeps bringing the departed soul before God with mercy, peace, purification, and the hope of paradise.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
the recently deceased, mourning families, eternal rest, mercy for the dead
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the recently deceased, mourning families, eternal rest, and mercy for the dead.
Usual timing
For nine days after a death
The Trinity with Souls in Purgatory, Corrado Giaquinto