Catholic novena
Respect Life Novena
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Intercede Catholic Novenas, Respect Life Novena page, https://catholicnovenaapp.com/novenas/respect-life-novena/ Calendar verification: Prayer for respect for life. The USCCB has a separate annual 9 Days for Life composition and annual dates. Its 2026 dates do not establish a January 29 feast or a prescribed date for this app edition. Do not relabel this app edition as the USCCB composition or import that campaign schedule. Calendar sources: https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/9-days-life-unite-hundreds-thousands-prayer-protection-life.
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- A pro-life novena for unborn children, protection of life, conversion of hearts, and healing after abortion.
- Often prayed for
- Protection of unborn life, conversion of hearts, and healing after abortion.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- No fixed feast assigned to this intention
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About This Novena
This novena gathers Catholic prayer around the dignity of human life, asking for mercy, courage, and protection for the most vulnerable.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for unborn children, conversion of hearts, healing after abortion, and respect for life.
Usual timing
Any nine consecutive days
Day 1 of 9
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Day 1
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Principal Prayer for Each Day
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Father and maker of all, you adorn all creation with splendor and beauty, and fashion human lives in your image and likeness.
Awaken in every heart reverence for the work of your hands, and renew among your people a readiness to nurture and sustain your precious gift of life.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
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Amen
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
3 Hail Marys
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this devotion
Which edition is shown here?
A pro-life novena for unborn children, protection of life, conversion of hearts, and healing after abortion.
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About this novena
Description
This novena gathers Catholic prayer around the dignity of human life, asking for mercy, courage, and protection for the most vulnerable.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
unborn children, conversion of hearts, healing after abortion, respect for life
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for unborn children, conversion of hearts, healing after abortion, and respect for life.
Usual timing
Any nine consecutive days
The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents, Louvre