Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Philomena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Philomena for youth, purity, and children. Traditionally prayed August 2 through August 10.
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About This Novena
St. Philomena has long been loved as a helper of the poor and sorrowing. This novena is brief and trusting, marked by a simple emotional honesty: misery is admitted, but hope is not surrendered.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for youth, purity, children, and desperate causes.
Usual timing
August 2 through August 10
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Day 1: Faithful Virgin and Martyr
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Begin by honoring St. Philomena as faithful virgin and glorious martyr.
Opening Prayer
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O faithful virgin and glorious martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity on me. Thou knowest the multitude and diversity of my needs. Behold me at thy feet, full of misery, but full of hope.
I entreat thy charity, O great Saint! Graciously hear me and obtain from God a favorable answer to the request which I now humbly lay before thee.
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I am firmly convinced that through thy merits, through the scorn, the sufferings and the death thou didst endure, united to the merits of the Passion and death of Jesus, thy Spouse, I shall obtain what I ask of thee, and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, Who is admirable in His Saints. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
St. Philomena has long been loved as a helper of the poor and sorrowing. This novena is brief and trusting, marked by a simple emotional honesty: misery is admitted, but hope is not surrendered.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
youth, purity, children, desperate causes
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for youth, purity, children, and desperate causes.
Usual timing
August 2 through August 10
The Triumph of Saint Philomena