Traditional Catholic Novenas

For clarity, contemplation, and perseverance in God's light.

For creativity, faithful perseverance, spiritual clarity, and care for God’s creation.

For catechists, canon lawyers, love of truth, and the strengthening of faith in the Church.

For tests, study, memory, and calm trust when performance or judgment feels daunting.

For protection, perseverance, and living faith in times of danger.

Of repentance and reconciliation, asking Our Lady of La Salette for help returning to Christian duty and peace with God.

For patience in trial, poverty, providence, and persevering love of God.

A 54-day Marian consecration for an election, asking for conversion, protection, and leaders who will govern according to moral truth.

For conversion, financial wisdom, honest work, and the grace to follow Christ’s call faithfully.

For peace, refuge, consolation, and protection from the enemy under Mary's patronage.

For spiritual guidance, obedience to the Holy Spirit, conversion, and renewal of Christian faith.

For renewal of faith, conversion, vocations, and perseverance.

For guidance, safe travel, seafarers, and steady trust in Christ through storms and uncertainty.

For protection, fidelity, and help against the powers of evil.

For love of Scripture, wise study, perseverance in truth, and patience in difficulty.

A date-specific St. Thérèse novena for September 22, asking for confidence, humility, contrition, and growth in the Little Way.

For childlike trust, hidden holiness, missionary love, and signs of God’s tender care.

For protection, purity, holy inspirations, and help in temptation.

For trust, simplicity, hidden holiness, and love of souls.

For poverty of spirit, contrition, love of the Cross, and final perseverance.

For Mary’s help, protection, victory over evil, and the graces that come through faithful Rosary prayer.

For urgent help, hard situations, family needs, and freedom for those who feel trapped or burdened.

For light in the Faith, peace of conscience, penance, and deeper love of Jesus.

Honoring Our Lady of Champion for conversion, trust, holy courage, and maternal help.

For fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and the grace to live motherhood with peace and trust.

For faith, hope, love, Eucharistic devotion, and growth through holy doctrine.

For faith, purity, obedience, charity, and conformity to Christ.

For pregnancy, childbirth, safe delivery, and calm trust for mothers and families.

To the Sacred Heart, confidence in Jesus’ mercy, and loving surrender to Him.

For physicians, artists, compassion in service, and deeper understanding of Christ’s life and words.

For hopeless causes, desperate needs, and grave illness when visible help is urgently needed.

For love of Christ crucified, perseverance, and help in need.

Centered on purity, courage, fidelity, and the salvation of souls.

For holiness, truthful communication, and faithful discipleship.

For healing, safe travel, protection, and guidance in uncertain roads.

For missionaries, teachers, the afflicted, and help through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

For October 17, using the official shrine prayer card text and the institute’s 17th-to-25th monthly practice.

For urgent need, hopeless cases, and steadfast trust.

Joining the intercession of Our Lady, the angels, and the whole company of saints in one feast-tide devotion.

For persevering faith, love, wisdom in age, and faithful service.

For healing, purity, mercy, and help in urgent need.

For humility, charity, healing, trust in God, and grace against racism and pride.

For honorable conduct, stewardship, gratitude, and self-command.

Centered on piety, ecclesiastical fidelity, discipline, resignation, and preparation for death.

For elections asking God for truth, justice, protection, and leaders who will govern uprightly.

For pregnancy, conceiving a child, patience, and trust in God’s timing.

For strong faith, doctrinal clarity, courage, and protection of the Church.

For final perseverance, help at death, and protection from sudden death.

For generosity, trust in God, freedom from poverty and addiction, and love for Christ in the poor.

For help in burdens, labor, and special petitions.

For immigrants, consolation, practical help, and grace to follow God’s will.

For honest work, integrity in business, charity toward the poor, and holiness in ordinary duties.

For study, wisdom, intellectual honesty, and deeper harmony between faith and reason.

For courage, purity, Eucharistic devotion, and perseverance.

For the holy souls, mercy for sinners, family conversion, and deeper union with Christ.

For healing, compassionate medical care, honest work, and hope for the suffering.

For mothers, family life, learning, charity to the poor, and holiness in leadership.

For generosity, charity, widows, the poor, and a heart that serves Christ in suffering neighbors.

For perseverance, missionary courage, education, and strength in adversity.

Focused on self-oblation, interior life, detachment, and renewal of one’s consecration to God.

For peace, justice, mercy, and the recognition of Christ’s reign over hearts, families, and nations.

To the patroness of sacred music, asking St. Cecilia for purity, praise, and grace to use gifts beautifully for God.

For perseverance, unity, humility, and steadfast faith.

For wisdom, steadfast faith, heavenly light, and fidelity to God's will.

For special graces, protection, conversion, and trust in the intercession signified by the Miraculous Medal.

A date-specific St. Catherine Labouré novena for November 19, asking for wisdom, Marian protection, and special graces.

For openness to Christ’s call, apostolic courage, perseverance under the Cross, and faithful discipleship.

For courage, fidelity to the Church, reverts to the faith, and steadfastness under pressure.

For grace, missionary zeal, and a holy death.

For fortitude, perseverance, the sacraments before death, and a holy, prepared death.

For right belief, holy teaching, theology students, and courage to speak the truth clearly.

For November 26, using the old St. Barbara prayer from the Holy Helpers tradition and counting forward to her December 4 feast.

Using an Eastern Christian supplicatory text for broad fatherly help, protection, mercy for the poor, and peace for Christian households and communities.

For children, families, practical needs, and help in danger or injustice.

Using his great prayer before Holy Mass, asking for mercy, purity, reverence, and worthy reception of Christ.

For purity, protection from sin, and confident entrustment to Our Lady.

For purity, confidence in Our Lady, and preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The traditional St. Andrew Christmas novena, prayed in longing for the birth of Christ and for a grace through His Nativity.

For humility, trust in Mary, comfort in fear, and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

For the canonization of Venerable Fulton Sheen and for deeper faith, conversion, and evangelization.

For finding a home, peace in family life, safety in travel, and confidence in Mary’s help.

For fidelity, courage in truth, and love of the martyrs.

For merciful help, trust, consolation, and loving protection under her mantle.

For fortitude, recollection, Eucharistic love, and Marian trust.

Using the older Raccolta prayers for living faith, firm hope, ardent charity, and the preservation of sight.

For contemplative prayer, spiritual endurance, abandonment to God’s will, and love of the Cross.

For families in distress, peace after betrayal, and perseverance through unjust suffering.

A short Advent devotional sequence prayed from December 16 through December 24, drawing especially on the great O Antiphons and related scriptural invocations in immediate preparation for Christmas.

For the afflicted, the imprisoned, and all who need hope and courage in trials.

For consolation, family sanctification, and help in distress.

For forgiveness, perseverance under suffering, and the grace to remain faithful to Christ to the end.

For purity, obedience, humility, and faithful love of God.

For purity, deep love of Christ, filial devotion to Mary, and faithful friendship with God.

For babies, grieving parents, innocence, peace, and trust in God’s mercy amid violence.

For clergy, conscience, healing, and courage in defending the rights of the Church.

For mercy, peace, blessing on the home, and protection from evil.

Tied devotionally to January 1, honoring the conferral of the Name of Jesus at the Circumcision and asking reparation, reverence, and confidence in His saving Name.

For Mary’s protection, maternal guidance, and help in a special intention.

For love of the Savior, help in temptation, and confidence in His saving Name.

For the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, commonly associated in older Roman usage with January 2 when no intervening Sunday took the feast.

For protection, courage in public danger, service of the poor, and fidelity to Christ.

For families, schools, holy surrender, and trust in God’s will.

Suited to the octave days after the Circumcision, especially January 4, keeping the devotion close to the first outpouring of the Precious Blood and the conferral of the Name of Jesus.

For Catholic education, pastoral charity, missionary zeal, and perseverance in serving souls.

In anticipation of the Epiphany, following the Magi from expectation to adoration and faithful return.

An Epiphany novena asking for faith, adoration, and the grace to seek and offer oneself to Christ like the Magi.

For healing, humility, and loving service through the help of St. Joseph.

For wise repentance, faithful confession, freedom from sin, and help for those in captivity.

For repentance, confession, mercy, and conversion of heart.

For perseverance in suffering, trust in Christ, Eucharistic love, and obedience to God’s will.

For surrender to Jesus, peace in worry, and trust that He will care for what we cannot control.

For right belief, courage in defending the faith, and reverent understanding of the Holy Trinity.

For peace, blessings, financial help, and childlike trust in Jesus.

For courage, conscience, truth in the Church, and peace rooted in Christ.

For peace, endurance, and confidence when earthly help seems small.

For fidelity to the Church, unity with the Holy See, and grace for the Pope and the faithful.

For courage, faith, and protection from fear of man.

For healing, protection, and help through Mary’s intercession.

For purity, brave confession of Christ, and trust in God under trial.

For generous service, mercy toward the outcast, and strength in suffering.

Tied to January 25, asking for healing from addiction, family restoration, and grace for recovery.

For the sick and suffering, lively faith, purity, and perseverance in Christian duty.

For prudence, faithful Christian service, and generosity in the education and care of souls.

For gentleness, perseverance, and holy fidelity.

For unborn children, protection of life, conversion of hearts, and healing after abortion.

For fidelity to the faith, loyalty to the Church, and strength to follow the word of God.

For youth, guidance, trust, and steadfast Christian formation.

For charity, protection, and the grace of a faithful Christian home.

For faithfulness, children in hard homes, Ireland, and a holy death.

For help in a present need while placing the request under the good of the Church and the salvation of the soul.

For protection of the throat, healing, sincere confession, and deliverance from bodily and spiritual harm.

For protection from fire, safety for homes and families, and freedom from sinful passions.

For purity, healing, and courage through bodily suffering and assault.

For courage, steadfast faith, forgiveness, and fidelity under persecution.

Seeking needed graces, confidence in Mary’s maternal care, and help in pressing needs.

For trust, refuge in God, and healing for those who have known bondage or suffering.

For tooth pain, bodily suffering, perseverance, and courage under trial.

For courage, youthful holiness, and fidelity under persecution.

For innocence, prayer, charity, and delight in God.

For healing, mercy, comfort, and maternal intercession in suffering.

For peace in conflict, prudent speech, and wise reconciliation.

For holy vocations, zeal for truth, and generous service in the Church.

For help in present needs, divine blessing, protection from evils, and faithful perseverance.

For prayer, sacrifice, sickness, purity, and fidelity to Our Lady of Fatima.

For reform, hatred of sin, deeper prayer, and confidence in the help of Our Lady.

For the Chair of Saint Peter asking for unity, fidelity to the Church, and steadfast confession of Christ.

For repentance, mercy, healing after a chaotic past, and prayer for the homeless and mentally ill.

For courage, steadfast faith, healing of soul, and endurance under suffering.

For healing, consolation, strength, and trust in God’s providence.

For families, work, protection, and a happy death, prayed in honor of his years with Jesus.

For young people, students, priests, purity, and devotion to the Passion and Mary’s sorrows.

For repentance, healing, renewal, and rebuilding in the life of the Church.

For steadfast faith, help in distress, and prosperity of the Church.

For justice, Eucharistic love, missionary generosity, and fidelity in serving neglected communities.

For purity, penitence, holy fear of sin, and contempt for worldly vanity.

For courage, holiness, and God’s love in suffering.

For mothers, sick children, trust in poverty, reform of life, and cheerful perseverance in prayer.

For healing, patient endurance, and sanctification through suffering.

For perseverance, discernment, detachment from vanity, and angelic help on the way to Heaven.

For purity, devotion, apostolic zeal, and holy joy.

Of Grace to St. Francis Xavier for a holy life, a happy death, missionary courage, and a special favor.

For holy worship, priestly fidelity, strong faith, and help living a holy life.

The traditional Novena of Grace in honor of St. Francis Xavier for grace, missionary fervor, and help in a special need.

For Marian confidence, urgent needs, and grace to avoid mortal sin.

For perseverance in faith, love of God, and protection for Christian people and pastors.

For family care, work, purity, protection, and a holy death.

For catechists, catechumens, doctrinal clarity, and deeper sacramental life.

For protection, strength against temptation, and perseverance through the trials of life.

Through the seven sorrows and joys of St. Joseph for peace, trust, and deeper devotion to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

For zeal in truth, growth in holiness, and courage in teaching the faith.

For help in present necessities, discernment, and a deeper union with the mystery of the Incarnation.

In honor of the Annunciation for grace, devotion to Mary, and meditation on the Incarnation.

For purity, humility, mercy, and the grace of a holy life and happy death.

For youth, catechists, missionaries, courage under pressure, and generous witness to the Gospel.

For students, programmers, wise internet use, and charity in digital life.

For patient endurance, family needs, spiritual protection, and perseverance to the end.

For teachers, students, Christian education, and zeal for souls.

Asking his fatherly protection, help in trials, and faithfulness unto a happy death.

For courage at death, victory over temptation, and final perseverance.

For Eucharistic devotion, adoration, lively faith, and ardent love for Christ.

For mercy, purity, love of the Passion, and help in present need.

For conversion, fidelity to the Rosary, help in trial, and peace and unity in the Church.

For the disabled, the blind, pro-life intentions, and trustful acceptance of suffering.

For chronic pain, trust in illness, patient endurance, and help for the sick.

For the poor, the homeless, mental affliction, humility, and adoration.

For humility, healing, obedience, and a more generous spirit in suffering.

For urgent causes, emergencies, delays, legal troubles, and serious needs that require prompt help.

For fidelity, simplicity, help for sick children, and freedom from worldly distraction.

In honor of St. George for courage, steadfast faith, and victory over evil.

For courage, steadfast faith, and help in battle, work, and hardship.

For lively faith, perseverance, and grace to follow Christ well.

For discernment, wisdom, steadiness in trial, and help choosing what is true and good.

For Marian help, perseverance, and graces sought through Our Lady’s intercession.

Centered on the Passion of Christ, repentance, conversion, and final perseverance.

For Marian devotion, renewal of baptismal promises, and a deeper life in Christ through Mary.

For missionary zeal, gentleness, courage, and faithful witness to Christ.

For prayer, purity, penance, charity, and zeal for God.

For healing, consolation, strength, and trust in God's providence.

For employment, dignity in labor, provision, holiness in daily work, and final perseverance.

For the sick, especially those facing cancer or incurable illness, asking both healing and patient endurance.

For humility, friendship with Christ, strong faith, and love of God above worldly praise.

For courage, steadfast faith, and joyful witness under trial.

For children, conversion of loved ones, and persevering prayer.

For final perseverance, victory over temptation, and help at the hour of death.

For charity, compassion, and generous service to the poor.

For the abandoned, the homeless, the mentally ill, and all who fear being left alone or forgotten.

For courage, missionary charity, strength in suffering, and help for the bullied.

For health, work, trust in Providence, and protection from adversity.

For peace, conversion, reparation, and a deeper love of the Rosary through Our Lady of Fatima.

To St. Corona against pandemics, plagues, fear, and sickness, asking both bodily protection and readiness in grace.

For perseverance, upright living, hope, and freedom from addiction.

For strong faith, hope, purity, courage against sin, and perseverance toward salvation.

For mental afflictions, consolation, patience, and hope in long or hidden suffering.

For daily work, agriculture, humility, providence, and a fruitful interior life.

For travelers, sailors, freedom from destructive habits, and perseverance on the path to God.

For Eucharistic love, help in trouble, holy death, and divine protection.

For purity, zeal for Mary, help for the souls in Purgatory, and fidelity to God’s will.

To the Holy Name, holy speech, conversion, and faithful communication.

For missionary zeal, family healing, vocations, and courage in God’s will.

For impossible situations and steadfast patience.

For help against sin and evil, protection of the Church, and steady help in temptation and trial.

For deep prayer, humility, strength in temptation, and a burning love of God.

For joy, peace, cheerfulness, and freedom from anxious heaviness.

For Christian unity, healing, obedience, and missionary courage.

For courage under heavy burdens, heavenly help, and final perseverance.

For the Visitation for new life, infertility, pro-life intentions, and the grace to carry Christ into the needs of others.

For reparation, conversion, pardon, and deeper Marian devotion.

For truth, wisdom, apologetics, and courage in the face of error.

For constancy in the Faith, courage in suffering, and final perseverance.

For zeal for souls, Christian education, reverence for creation, and holiness.

For Eucharistic love, prayer, service, and holy vocations.

For Eucharistic devotion, peace, purity, miracles, and zeal for souls.

To Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom for studies, humility, right learning, and light in the pursuit of truth.

For Eucharistic devotion, charity, learning, temperance, and the preservation of Christian faith.

For lost things, urgent needs, humility, and charity.

For youthful purity, courage in temptation, and perseverance in sanctifying grace.

For abused and abandoned children, disabled people, family healing, and protection for the vulnerable.

For holiness, pastoral wisdom, and help in a special need.

For repentance, humility, purity, patience, and freedom from judging others.

For holiness, Eucharistic love, penance, and a blessed death.

For purity, discipline, holy desires, and courage in temptation.

For health, purity, family protection, and Marian help for the living and the dead.

For repentance, detachment, holy courage, and the conversion of souls.

For spiritual sight, trust in God, prayerful work, and hospitality.

For peace in the Church, truth, and constancy in the faith.

For faith, hope, charity, purity, and perseverance in grace.

For firm faith, apostolic courage, purity of heart, and perseverance unto death.

For mercy, help in distress, healing, and confidence in the redeeming Blood of Christ.

For mercy, help in need, and deeper love for Christ’s saving sacrifice.

For the old July 2 feast of the Visitation, following Our Lady’s virtues from departure to return.

For reconciliation, purity, generous sacrifice, and peace in strained relationships.

For purity, forgiveness, courage, and love of God above all else.

For addiction, perseverance, mercy, and hope when a long struggle has not yet ended.

For prudence, diligence, wisdom, courage, and faithful perseverance.

For peace, freedom from fear, and calm under God’s protection in homes, hearts, and nations.

For purity of heart, endurance in suffering, and a more confident love of the Cross.

For peace, pardon, forgiveness, and strength to answer evil with good.

For marriage, parenting, illness, mental anguish, and holy perseverance in family life.

For young people, joyful fidelity, purity, and cheerful love of Christ in suffering.

For healing, holiness, and generous love for the poor.

For humility, sincere prayer, Marian devotion, and the salvation of souls.

For help in necessity and placing one's whole cause into Mary's hands.