Catholic novena
Novena for One Recently Deceased (De Profundis)
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Prayer source
2026 nine-day arrangement of a complete public-domain prayer (1910)
The Raccolta, Ambrose St. John English translation, 1910 edition (Burns & Oates/Benziger Brothers), no. 404, printed pp. 353-354, complete English Psalm 129 and responses; no. 412, printed p. 359, complete final collect and its Eternal rest response. These complete source components are combined for nine-day use in 2026; this is not a claim that the 1910 book prints this novena. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theraccoltaorcol00unknuoft.djvu.
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- A nine-day arrangement, made in 2026, of the complete De Profundis and the complete collect for the faithful departed from the 1910 Raccolta. It is a different edition from the former set of nine collects.
- 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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OUT of the depths I have cried unto Thee, O LORD: LORD, hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive : to the voice of my supplication. If Thou, O LORD, shalt mark our iniquities: O LORD, who can abide it? For with Thee there is mercy : and by reason of thy law I have waited on Thee, O LORD. My soul hath waited on his word : my soul hath hoped in the LORD. From the morning watch even unto night: let Israel hope in the LORD. For with the LORD there is mercy: and with Him is plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel: from all his iniquities.
V. Eternal rest give to them, O LORD. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
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O GOD, the CREATOR and REDEEMER of all the faithful, grant to the souls of thy servants departed the remission of all their sins, that through pious supplications they may obtain the pardon they have always desired. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.
V. Eternal rest give unto them, O LORD. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
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A nine-day arrangement, made in 2026, of the complete De Profundis and the complete collect for the faithful departed from the 1910 Raccolta. It is a different edition from the former set of nine collects.
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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