Traditional Catholic Novena
Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Thomas Aquinas for students, teachers, and wisdom. Traditionally prayed February 26 or 27 through March 6.
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About This Novena
The St. Thomas Aquinas novena is one of the clearest examples of learning placed under grace. It asks for understanding, memory, method, and eloquence, but always as gifts ordered to truth, holiness, and the service of God.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for students, teachers, wisdom, and clarity in study.
Usual timing
February 26 or 27 through March 6
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Day 1: Put Christ Above All
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Opening Prayer
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Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who make eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Grant me also, through the intercession of Blessed Thomas, the favor I now place before You in this novena.
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Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and live and reign for ever and ever. Amen.
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Our Father
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
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
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.
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About this novena
Description
The St. Thomas Aquinas novena is one of the clearest examples of learning placed under grace. It asks for understanding, memory, method, and eloquence, but always as gifts ordered to truth, holiness, and the service of God.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
students, teachers, wisdom, clarity in study
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for students, teachers, wisdom, and clarity in study.
Usual timing
February 26 or 27 through March 6
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Carlo Crivelli