
Traditional Catholic Novena
St. John of God Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. John of God for the sick, hospitals, and healing. Traditionally prayed February 27 through March 8, or any time.
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About This Novena
The novena keeps the older Catholic habit of praying for healing without denying the spiritual use of suffering, asking St. John of God both for cure and for cheerful endurance under the cross.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the sick, hospitals, healing, and cheerful endurance in suffering.
Usual timing
February 27 through March 8, or any time
Day 1 of 9
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Day 1: Help in Sickness
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Saint John of God, heavenly Patron of the Sick, I come to you in prayer to seek your help in my present sickness.
Through the love which Jesus had for you in choosing you for the sublime vocation of serving the sick,
and through the tender affection with which the Blessed Virgin Mary placed upon your head a crown of thorns as a symbol of the sufferings you would undergo in the service of the sick to attain to your crown of glory, I beg you to intercede for me to Jesus and Mary that They may grant me a cure, if this should be according to the Will of God.
How patiently you bore the sufferings of your own disease!
Teach me to carry with cheerful resignation the cross that God has given me.
Let me never complain or lose courage.
Help me to understand that suffering is a very important means of sanctifying my soul, of atoning for my many sins, and of reaping a plentiful harvest of merit for Heaven.
I trust in your great love for the sick and in the power of your intercession to help them.
Help me, good St. John, and beg the God whose name you bear to touch me as He touched the sick while on earth, that through His almighty power health may return to my body.
And as you derived strength in your own sufferings from the crucifix, so may I be able to say what you did to Jesus Crucified,
Lord, Thy thorns are my roses and Thy sufferings my paradise.
Good Saint John, lover of those who suffer and special Patron of the Sick, I confidently place before you my earnest petition
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I beg you to recommend my request to Mary, the Mother of Sorrows and Health of the Sick, that both Mary and you may present it to Jesus, the Divine Physician.
Saint John of God, patron of the Sick and beloved of Jesus and Mary, pray to Them for me and obtain my request. (repeat this three times)
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.
St John of God, pray for us!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this novena
Description
The novena keeps the older Catholic habit of praying for healing without denying the spiritual use of suffering, asking St. John of God both for cure and for cheerful endurance under the cross.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
the sick, hospitals, healing, cheerful endurance in suffering
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the sick, hospitals, healing, and cheerful endurance in suffering.
Usual timing
February 27 through March 8, or any time

Saint John of God, Bartolome Esteban Murillo
