Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to Saint Giles
A traditional Catholic novena to Saint Giles for a good confession, repentance, and disabled people. Traditionally prayed August 24 through September 1.
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About This Novena
Beginning on August 24, this novena asks for repentance, peace of conscience, and grace at judgment.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for a good confession, repentance, disabled people, peace of conscience, and holy death.
Usual timing
August 24 through September 1
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Almighty and eternal God, with lively faith and reverently worshipping Your Divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before You and invoke with filial trust Your supreme generosity and mercy. Illuminate the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Your heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Your Divine Love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of Saint Giles and, following his example, imitate the life of Your Divine Son.
Moreover, I beseech You to graciously grant me, through the merits and intercession of this powerful helper, the petition which I humbly place before You, devoutly saying: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it is to Your greater glory and the salvation of my soul. Amen.
O God, we beseech You to grant us through the merits and intercession of Saint Giles to flee from the vanity and praise of this world, to avoid the occasions of sin, to cleanse our hearts by a sincere confession, to leave this world in Your love and rich in good works, and to find You gracious on the day of judgment. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Giles, obtain for me a contrite heart, a good confession, and peace of conscience before God. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
Beginning on August 24, this novena asks for repentance, peace of conscience, and grace at judgment.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
a good confession, repentance, disabled people, peace of conscience, holy death
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for a good confession, repentance, disabled people, peace of conscience, and holy death.
Usual timing
August 24 through September 1
Saint Giles, from a church wall painting in Stockholm