Traditional Catholic Novenas

Centered on reparation and love.

For help in grief, family suffering, and perseverance at the foot of the Cross.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Often prayed from July 17 through July 25 in preparation for her feast day.

For urgent need, hopeless cases, and steadfast trust.

For impossible situations and steadfast patience.

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

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

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

For gentleness, perseverance, and holy fidelity.

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

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

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

Prayed especially between the Ascension and Pentecost for the seven gifts and a more faithful interior life.

For peace in the home, fidelity to the Faith, mutual charity, and courage in Christian living.

Asking mercy for the departed and deeper conversion for ourselves.

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

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

Asking the Immaculate Heart of Mary to lead the soul to Jesus, protect the Church, and shelter the faithful in every danger.

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

For rescue in temptation, confidence in Mary, and perseverance in grace.

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

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

For hope, family charity, reverence at Mass, Eucharistic love, and comfort in distress.

For help in necessity, growth in virtue, protection in life, and final perseverance.

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

For help in temptation, loving remembrance of Mary, and a holy death.

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

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

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

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

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

For prompt help, spiritual blessings, and peace at the hour of death.

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

For zeal, truth, charity, endurance in trial, and a stronger Rosary devotion.

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

For repentance, resistance to temptation, love of Jesus and Mary, and final perseverance.

For sickness, healing, bodily and spiritual health, and patient trust in God during suffering.

For heavenly-mindedness, detachment from earthly things, family needs, and eternal salvation.

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

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

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

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

For mercy, pardon, obedience, conversion of sinners, and help for the dying.

For confidence, consolation, deliverance in temptation, and a deep love for the saving Name of Christ.

For urgent petitions, confidence, gratitude, and trust in the merciful help of the Child Jesus.

For mercy, justice, peace, forgiveness, and the social reign of Christ.

For purity, constancy in faith, victory over temptation, and final perseverance.

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

For courage, fidelity under trial, and purity from sinful desires.

For protection, courage, perseverance, and the grace to bear Christ faithfully.

For help in distress, hope for the sorrowing, and confidence in miraculous intercession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asking God's powerful help in anguish, pardon in distress, and peace through the Sacred Heart.

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

For family protection, fidelity to the Church, devotion to Mary, and strong faith against error.

For repentance, contrition, and ardent love of Christ.

For help in trials, family needs, and consolation in difficulty.

For help in burdens, labor, and special petitions.

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

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

Centered on the Passion, mercy, family needs, and peace.

For poverty of spirit, charity, confidence in providence, and holy perseverance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For humility, repentance, peace of conscience, and final fidelity.

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

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

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

For the sick, patient endurance in illness, and charitable service.

For charity, obedience to God's will, and protection in spiritual combat.

For wisdom, study, eloquence, humility, and purity in the pursuit of truth.

For Eucharistic love, reparation, worthy Communion, and adoration.

Of prayers for one recently deceased soul.

The traditional 9-Hour Novena to the Infant Jesus for urgent situations requiring concentrated prayer.

Honoring the 25th of every month as a little Christmas in memory of Christ's birth.

The classic 54-Day Rosary Novena: a sustained Rosary devotion of petition and thanksgiving made over 54 consecutive days.

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

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

Suited to the early January feast-tide, asking that the saving Name of Jesus remain the Christian’s strength, consolation, and hope unto death.

Uniting the opening of the civil year to the Circumcision, the first shedding of the Precious Blood, and the Holy Name of Jesus.

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

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

Focused on mercy, charity, help for the poor and abandoned, and zeal for the Church.

To St. Ignatius Loyola, full of old Jesuit themes: conversion, penance, obedience, detachment, and zeal for souls.

That unites Marian triumph with humility, poverty of spirit, purity, and yearning for Heaven.

Honoring his monastic austerity, zeal for the Church, Eucharistic love, and Marian devotion.

For union with God, Eucharistic love, Marian confidence, and fortitude through life’s adversities.

For purity, renunciation, fidelity to grace, and growth in the interior dispositions seen in Our Lady from infancy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

For courage, youthful holiness, and fidelity under persecution.

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

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

For priestly holiness, repentance, prayer, mercy, and steadfastness in the spiritual life.

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

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

Invoking the Fourteen Holy Helpers together for strong intercession in serious trouble, sickness, temptation, and fear.

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

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

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

For conversion, healing of memory, deeper holiness, and trust in God’s providence.

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

For bodily and spiritual health, maternal protection, and consolation in affliction.

For employment, provision, just work, and courage in financial uncertainty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For families, vocations, charity, and service to the vulnerable.

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

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

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

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

For protection, scapular devotion, growth in virtue, and comfort at death through Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

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

For Cuba, families, children, hope in suffering, and help for the sick through Our Lady of Charity.

For eyesight, healing, and protection from darkness of body and soul.

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

For consolation, deeper conversion, bold witness, and a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

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

For generous service, trust in hardship, and help responding faithfully to the needs in front of us.

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

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

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

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

For protection, peace in the family, perseverance in faith, and trust in times of danger or trial.

For Eucharistic love, faithful adoration, humility, and peace in Christ’s reign.

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

For justice, fatherly leadership, charity, and faithful Christian rule.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For healing, trust in God, detachment from the world, and help in urgent needs.

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

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

For protection, refuge from evil, and trust in Mary’s help during distress and danger.

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

For urgent needs, childlike trust, and help overcoming sin through the Infant Jesus.

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

Honoring the Queenship of Mary and asking for peace, salvation, and a heart more fixed on heaven.

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

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

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

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

For courage, sacrifice, military service, and growth in pastoral charity.

For mental anguish, penance, holy death, and relief for the souls in Purgatory.

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

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

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

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

Asking to draw closer to Christ crucified and to receive peace, mercy, and strength in suffering.

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

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

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

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

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

Linked to St. Bridget of Sweden, prayed for repentance, perseverance, and a holy death.

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

For difficult marriages, conversion, perseverance in suffering, and a deeper love for the Cross of Christ.

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

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

For perseverance, apostolic courage, pilgrims, and strength in the struggles of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For purity, humility, patience under misunderstanding, and peace in troubled families.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A long St. Michael’s Lent devotion of prayer, fasting, and penance for spiritual protection and deeper union with God.

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

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

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

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

For domestic peace, courage in faith, charity in the home, and faithful family life.

For reparation, mercy, conversion, and perseverance to the end.

For light, strength, holiness, and the seven gifts.

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

For marriage, holy waiting, motherly guidance, and trust in God while seeking a spouse.

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

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

An Assumption novena for eternal hope, a holy death, freedom from sin, and Mary’s heavenly help.

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

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

For repentance, fidelity after conversion, and deeper love of Christ.

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

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

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

For courage, faith, purity, care for the poor, and help in trials and urgent needs.

For solitude with God, perseverance, and freedom from worldly distraction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For humility, freedom from anxiety, trust in God, and hidden holiness.

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

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

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

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

For understanding of salvation, faithful action, and help in a special need.

For heavenly desire, resurrection hope, and Mary’s intercession.

For repentance, good confession, freedom from sin, and peace of conscience.