Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Benedict Joseph Labre Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Benedict Joseph Labre for the homeless, beggars, and unmarried men. Traditionally prayed April 7 through April 15, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to the holy beggar St. Benedict Joseph Labre as an intercessor for poverty, rejection, humility, and Eucharistic love, with a special tenderness toward those the world overlooks.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the homeless, beggars, unmarried men, mental illness, and those rejected by society.
Usual timing
April 7 through April 15, or any time
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
St. Benedict Joseph Labre, you gave up honor, money and home for love of Jesus.
Help us to set our hearts on Jesus and not on the things of this world.
You lived in obscurity among the poor in the streets.
Enable us to see Jesus in our poor brothers and sisters and not judge by appearances.
Make us realize that in helping them we are helping Jesus.
Show us how to befriend them and not pass them by.
St. Benedict Joseph Labre, you had a great love for prayer.
Obtain for us the grace of persevering prayer, especially adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
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St. Benedict Joseph Labre, poor in the eyes of men but rich in the eyes of God, pray for us.
Amen.
Saint Benedict Joseph, beloved by God, guide us, fellow travelers on this earth, along your pilgrim path to God, protect us from all temptations of desire and arrogance, so that we may embrace humility in the presence of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and be welcomed into His eternal kingdom.
Compassionate Jesus, who, through the life of Your servant Benedict Joseph, demonstrated Your love for the least of this world, grant us, we pray, the blessings that the Holy Beggar petitions on our behalf, knowing that he seeks only what will lead us to You, through Your example of Holy Poverty on earth and Your Divine Work. 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.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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.
St Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this novena
Description
This novena turns to the holy beggar St. Benedict Joseph Labre as an intercessor for poverty, rejection, humility, and Eucharistic love, with a special tenderness toward those the world overlooks.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
the homeless, beggars, unmarried men, mental illness, those rejected by society
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the homeless, beggars, unmarried men, mental illness, and those rejected by society.
Usual timing
April 7 through April 15, or any time
Portrait of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, Antonio Cavallucci