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Traditional Catholic Novena

Novena to St. Ignatius Loyola

A traditional Catholic novena to St. Ignatius Loyola for conversion, discernment, and obedience. Traditionally prayed July 22 through July 31, or any time.

9 daysFeast: July 310 of 9 complete

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1. Glorious St. Ignatius, who, on reading the lives of saints, resolved to imitate them, renouncing for ever all worldly honors, and seeking nothing but the greater glory of God: obtain for us also an efficacious resolution to practice all divine virtues, and like you, free from all earthly love, to desire nothing but to see Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ glorified throughout the whole world. Glory be, etc.

2. O glorious St. Ignatius, who, after your conversion to the Lord, macerated your body with vigils, fasts, disciplines, hair-shirts, and other similar austerities; obtain for us also the grace to look upon our body as our enemy, and by continual mortification at length to cancel the heavy debt to the divine Justice which we by our sins have contracted. Glory be, etc.

3. O glorious St. Ignatius, who, when tempted to moderate your fervor, and to change your manner of life, instead of listening to the suggestions of the enemy, redoubled your austerities, for which you merited to receive a visit from the most holy Virgin Mary; obtain for us the grace to persevere until death in the practice of penance, in the mortification of our senses, and in the subjugation of our will, so as to make it perfectly conformable to the will of God and the will of our Superiors, and thus to attain, through thy intercession and the merits of obedience, to the beatific vision and the company of the angels and saints in the kingdom of Heaven. Glory be, etc.

4. O glorious St. Ignatius, who, resolving to imitate with perfection the poverty, the humility, and the patience of Jesus Christ, renounced all the comforts of your home, lived on alms, and suffered joyfully the most unjust persecutions: obtain for us the grace of living so detached from all the things of the world, and of enduring so tranquilly all its persecutions, that we may be indeed faithful disciples and true imitators of Jesus Christ. Glory be, etc.

5. O glorious St. Ignatius, who through your Spiritual Exercises, and the instrumentality of your Society, have converted innumerable souls to God, and in a great measure repaired the ruin caused by heresy and evil customs: obtain for us the grace to be always ready to make any sacrifice to convert souls to God, and to promote the glory of His Church; that we also may at length share in that blessedness which is promised to those who hunger and thirst after justice. Glory be, etc.

6. O glorious St. Ignatius, chosen in the designs of God from eternity to be the founder of the Society of Jesus and the father of innumerable saints, vouchsafe to protect me, to direct me, to pray for me, and to guide my petitions, that I may ask and do only what is according to your maxim: Ad majorem Dei gloriam: For the greater honor and glory of God. Obtain for me, also, and for all poor sinners light and salvation through the sacred wounds of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour. Amen. Glory be, etc.

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About this novena

Description

This older Ignatian novena is unmistakably penitential and missionary. It moves from conversion and austerity to obedience, detachment, the conversion of souls, and the Jesuit maxim that all be done for the greater glory of God.

Traditionally invoked as patron of

conversion, discernment, obedience, zeal for souls

Traditionally prayed for

Often prayed for conversion, discernment, obedience, and zeal for souls.

Usual timing

July 22 through July 31, or any time

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Saint Ignatius of Loyola devotional print

Saint Ignatius of Loyola devotional print