Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Isidore the Farmer Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Isidore the Farmer for farmers, peasants, and day laborers. Traditionally prayed May 6 through May 14, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Isidore the Farmer as a humble laborer whose love of Mass, daily work, and trust in God made ordinary life holy.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for farmers, peasants, day laborers, agriculture, and bricklayers.
Usual timing
May 6 through May 14, or any time
Day 1 of 9
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer, and mark the day complete when you finish.
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Principal Prayer for Each Day
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
St. Isidore, you lived a humble life working the land.
You attended Holy Mass each morning, which jeopardized the employment that allowed your family to eat.
The Lord repaid your love by sending His angels to plow the fields while you were at Church.
Dear Isidore, ask Our Lord Jesus to place deep faith in our hearts and water it each day with your prayers that we may progress in holiness as you did.
Pray that as our heart grows in love and humility we may be a living sign of Jesus to those around us.
As a farmer who used his hands to bring forth nourishing food, please ask Jesus to bless us with a bountiful harvest.
Pray that our hands and bodies will remain strong that we may farm the land God has given us.
Ask Jesus to care for our gardens as he tends our hearts.
Pray that weeds will be kept far from our fields and likewise give us an aversion to sin.
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Humbly we ask that you carry the petitions we hold in our heart to our most loving and generous Lord.
Amen.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this novena
Description
This novena turns to St. Isidore the Farmer as a humble laborer whose love of Mass, daily work, and trust in God made ordinary life holy.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
farmers, peasants, day laborers, agriculture, bricklayers
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for farmers, peasants, day laborers, agriculture, and bricklayers.
Usual timing
May 6 through May 14, or any time
Saint Isidore the Farmer and Saint Mary of the Head, 18th-century image