Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Expeditus Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Expeditus for urgent causes, emergencies, and lawsuits. Traditionally prayed April 10 through April 18, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Expeditus for help in truly urgent situations, asking for repentance, quick grace, and steady faith instead of panic or delay.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for urgent causes, emergencies, lawsuits, students, and against procrastination.
Usual timing
April 10 through April 18, or any time
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Pray the principal prayer and day-specific St. Expeditus meditation for this day.
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.
Act of Contrition
Act of Contrition
Lord Jesus Christ, I am heartily sorry for my sins. Grant me, therefore, pardon of my sins and the grace I ask of You through the merits of the sorrows of Your loving Mother and the virtues of Your martyr, Saint Expeditus.
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O glorious Martyr, St. Expeditus, through the lively faith which was granted you by God, I ask you to awaken the same faith in my heart, that I may also believe wholeheartedly that there is God, and above all that I may be saved from sinning against Him.
O Saint Expeditus, my protector, in you I place my hope that my petitions may be granted if they are for my own good.
Please ask Our Lord, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, for the forgiveness of my sins, and the grace to change my life, particularly the grace I ask in this novena, and I promise to follow your example and propagate this devotion to you.
Now pray three times in honor of the Most Holy Trinity:
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.
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.
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.
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. Expeditus for help in truly urgent situations, asking for repentance, quick grace, and steady faith instead of panic or delay.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
urgent causes, emergencies, lawsuits, students, against procrastination
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for urgent causes, emergencies, lawsuits, students, and against procrastination.
Usual timing
April 10 through April 18, or any time
Saint Expeditus, devotional lithograph