Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Elizabeth Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Elizabeth for pregnant women and to conceive a baby. Traditionally prayed October 27 through November 4, or any time.
Pray This Novena
Start with day 1
Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.
Your prayer progress and private intention stay only on this device unless you clear them. How to pray a novena.
About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Elizabeth as a mother who waited long and trusted deeply, asking her help for pregnancy, patience, and surrender to God.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for pregnant women, to conceive a baby, patience in waiting, and trust in God.
Usual timing
October 27 through November 4, or any time
Day 1 of 9
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer, and mark the day complete when you finish.
Day checklist
Check off each day as you pray
0 of 9
Tap a day after you pray it. Your checklist stays on this device.
Private intention
This stays only on this device and appears at the intention moment in the prayer.
Pray Day 1 of 9
Day 1
Not marked complete yet.
Tap any day to jump straight to it. Blue days are already marked complete on this device.
Pray the principal prayer for this day of the novena.
Principal Prayer for Each Day
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
O glorious St. Elizabeth, after many childless years of marriage, in your old age your faith in God was rewarded with the birth of a very special son, St. John the Baptist.
Help me, dear saint, to be patient and trust in the will of God, knowing that He knows what is best for me.
O God, Thou didst choose St. Elizabeth to play a central role in our redemption.
Her openness to Thy will is a model for us.
May we follow Thee as faithfully as St. Elizabeth did.
This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pause here for the grace you are asking.
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. Elizabeth, pray for us!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Related devotion
Keep this novena connected
Move naturally from this novena into the nearest saint life or traditional litany in the library.
Tools, privacy, and reminders
Prayer progress and local tools stay on this device unless you clear them.
About this novena
Description
This novena turns to St. Elizabeth as a mother who waited long and trusted deeply, asking her help for pregnancy, patience, and surrender to God.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
pregnant women, to conceive a baby, patience in waiting, trust in God
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for pregnant women, to conceive a baby, patience in waiting, and trust in God.
Usual timing
October 27 through November 4, or any time
The Visitation, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1611-1614