Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Matthias Apostle Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Matthias Apostle for alcoholics, perseverance, and hope. Traditionally prayed May 5 through May 13, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Matthias, chosen to fill the place left empty among the Twelve, and asks for steadiness, hope, and a life truly surrendered to God.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for alcoholics, perseverance, hope, carpenters, tailors, and uprightness of life.
Usual timing
May 5 through May 13, or any time
Day 1 of 9
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
O Glorious Saint Matthias, in God’s design it fell upon you to take the place of the unfortunate Judas who betrayed Jesus, his Master.
You were selected by the twofold sign of the uprightness of your life and the call of the Holy Spirit.
Obtain for us the grace to practice the same uprightness of life and to be called by that same Spirit to wholehearted service of the Church and our world.
Please help all who struggle with addiction to alcoholism or other addictions to experience this same grace and come to live in the serenity and joy of a life surrendered to God.
We beg your intercession, dear glorious saint, to ask God today to grant the favors we now place with confidence in your hands, especially
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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. Matthias, 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
This novena turns to St. Matthias, chosen to fill the place left empty among the Twelve, and asks for steadiness, hope, and a life truly surrendered to God.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
alcoholics, perseverance, hope, carpenters, tailors, uprightness of life
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for alcoholics, perseverance, hope, carpenters, tailors, and uprightness of life.
Usual timing
May 5 through May 13, or any time
Saint Matthias, Lucas Cranach the Elder