Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Gerard
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Gerard for mothers, pregnancy, and unborn children. Traditionally prayed October 7 through October 15.
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About This Novena
The St. Gerard novena is rich in virtues people often separate from one another: faith, detachment, charity, innocence, and obedience. It treats sanctity as total conformity to Christ, not a single devotional specialty.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for mothers, pregnancy, unborn children, and purity.
Usual timing
October 7 through October 15
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Saint Gerard, ever full of faith, obtain for me that, believing firmly all that the Church of God proposes to my belief, I may strive to secure through a holy life the joys of eternal happiness.
O Almighty and Everlasting God, who didst draw to thyself Saint Gerard, even from his tenderest years, making him conformable to the Image of Thy Crucified Son, grant, we beseech Thee, that imitating his example, we may be made like unto the same Divine Image. Amen.
V. Pray for us, O Saint Gerard. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
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About this novena
Description
The St. Gerard novena is rich in virtues people often separate from one another: faith, detachment, charity, innocence, and obedience. It treats sanctity as total conformity to Christ, not a single devotional specialty.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
mothers, pregnancy, unborn children, purity
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for mothers, pregnancy, unborn children, and purity.
Usual timing
October 7 through October 15
Saint Gerard Majella, devotional portrait