Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Catherine of Siena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Catherine of Siena for prayer, purity, and charity toward the sick. Traditionally prayed April 21 through April 29.
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About This Novena
St. Catherine of Siena's novena is intense in the best sense. It asks not only for contemplation, but for courage to live that love in purity, penance, and real service amid opposition.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for prayer, purity, charity toward the sick, and zeal for holiness.
Usual timing
April 21 through April 29
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Opening Prayer
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Catherine, fairest and most glorious of the daughters of St. Dominic, by that spirit of prayer, which was your delight from your infancy, obtain for us the love and practice of prayer, and the grace so to converse with God as to become daily more pleasing to Him.
By that especial love which you, O great saint, bore to the virtue of purity, obtain for us the grace to be always pure in mind and heart.
By that heroic charity which led you to minister to the poor and sick, obtain for us the grace to be at all times generous in service and patient in humiliation. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
St. Catherine of Siena's novena is intense in the best sense. It asks not only for contemplation, but for courage to live that love in purity, penance, and real service amid opposition.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
prayer, purity, charity toward the sick, zeal for holiness
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for prayer, purity, charity toward the sick, and zeal for holiness.
Usual timing
April 21 through April 29
Saint Catherine of Siena, devotional painting from Santa Maria del Rosario in Prati