Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Colette Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Colette for expectant mothers and sick children. Traditionally prayed February 26 through March 5, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Colette as a reforming Franciscan saint known for poverty, prayer, and special help for mothers and children in distress.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for expectant mothers, sick children, childless couples, Franciscan reform, and poverty.
Usual timing
February 26 through March 5, or any time
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Our Father, 10 Hail Marys and Glory be to the Father in honour of Saint Colette. To be said every day of the novena for the following intentions:
For the increase of love for Jesus. For a greater spirit of recollection and prayer. For a more intimate union with God. For a decrease of tepidity and infidelity. For the mortification of self-love. For the strict observance of the Rule. For the spirit of holy poverty. For the conversion of sinners. For the Holy Souls.
Prayer
O God, Who by means of blessed Colette did renew in Thy Church the primitive spirit of poverty and humility, grant, through her merits and prayers, that by faithfully following Christ poor and humble, we may attain to the reward of eternal glory. Through the same Christ our Lord.
Amen.
O glorious St Colette, who from childhood didst seek God alone and wast made a bright light for souls in need of reform, intercede for us in our necessities.
Obtain for us simplicity of heart, trust in Divine Providence, perseverance in prayer, and a cheerful spirit in suffering.
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Help mothers, children, and families who seek your prayers. Help us also to grow in humility and poverty of spirit.
St Colette, 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 St. Colette as a reforming Franciscan saint known for poverty, prayer, and special help for mothers and children in distress.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
expectant mothers, sick children, childless couples, Franciscan reform, poverty
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for expectant mothers, sick children, childless couples, Franciscan reform, and poverty.
Usual timing
February 26 through March 5, or any time
Saint Colette, anonymous painting, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba