Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Francis of Assisi
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Francis of Assisi for peace, animals, and the poor. Traditionally prayed September 25 through October 3.
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About This Novena
The St. Francis novena is full of the themes people most associate with him, but in a sterner way than modern sentiment often allows: renunciation, tears for sin, love of the Cross, and perseverance to a holy death.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for peace, animals, the poor, and care for creation.
Usual timing
September 25 through October 3
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Day 1: Renounced Riches
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Glorious Saint Francis, who voluntarily renounced all the comforts and riches of thy home to follow more perfectly the life of poverty and abnegation of Jesus Christ: Obtain for us, we pray, a generous contempt of all things in this world, that we may secure the true and eternal things of heaven.
O glorious Saint Francis, who during the whole course of thy life continually wept over the passion of the Redeemer, and labored most zealously for the salvation of souls: Obtain for us, we pray, the grace of weeping continually over those sins by which we have crucified afresh Our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may attain to be of the number of those who shall eternally bless His supreme mercy.
O glorious Saint Francis, who, loving above all things suffering and the Cross, merited to bear in thy body the miraculous stigmata, by which thou becamest a living image of Jesus Christ crucified: Obtain for us, we pray, the grace to bear in our bodies the mortifications of Christ, that we may merit one day to receive the consolations which are infallibly promised to all those who now weep.
Pray for us, Saint Francis, that we may obtain the graces and favors we ask for in this novena; pray for us, especially, that we may obtain the grace of perseverance; of a holy death and a happy eternity.
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About this novena
Description
The St. Francis novena is full of the themes people most associate with him, but in a sterner way than modern sentiment often allows: renunciation, tears for sin, love of the Cross, and perseverance to a holy death.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
peace, animals, the poor, care for creation
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for peace, animals, the poor, and care for creation.
Usual timing
September 25 through October 3
Saint Francis of Assisi, Metropolitan Museum of Art