Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Gemma Galgani
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Gemma Galgani for those with back pain, students, and purity. Traditionally prayed April 2 through April 10.
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About This Novena
St. Gemma's novena is marked by tenderness and intensity. It sees holiness not as mere moral effort, but as resemblance to the Crucified Christ through innocence, love, and willing union with His Passion.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for those with back pain, students, purity, and suffering united to Christ.
Usual timing
April 2 through April 10
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Opening Prayer
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Oh most Divine Lord, we humbly prostrate ourselves before Thy Infinite Majesty, and we adore Thee and dedicate to Thy glory the devout prayers which we now present to Thee, as an act of devotion to your servant, St Gemma Galgani, whose intercession we are now imploring.
Most compassionate virgin, St. Gemma, during thy short life on earth, you gave a most beautiful example of angelic innocence and seraphic love and was found worthy to bear in thy flesh the marks of our Lord's Passion. Have pity on us who are so much in need of God's Mercy, and obtain for us through thy merits and intercession, the special favor which we now fervently implore.
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O God, Who fashioned thy servant Saint Gemma into a likeness of Thy Crucified Son, grant us through her intercession the favor that we humbly request, and through the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Thy Son, may we be united with You for all eternity. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
St. Gemma's novena is marked by tenderness and intensity. It sees holiness not as mere moral effort, but as resemblance to the Crucified Christ through innocence, love, and willing union with His Passion.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
those with back pain, students, purity, suffering united to Christ
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for those with back pain, students, purity, and suffering united to Christ.
Usual timing
April 2 through April 10
Saint Gemma Galgani, photograph by Enrico Giannini (1901)