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PREPARATORY PRAYER



Almighty and eternal God!

With lively faith and reverently worshiping

Thy divine Majesty, 

I prostrate myself before Thee

and invoke with filial trust

Thy supreme bounty and mercy. 

Illumine the darkness of my intellect

with a ray of Thy heavenly light

and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love,

that I may contemplate the great virtues

and merits of the saint

in whose honor I make this novena,

and following his example imitate,

like him, the life of Thy divine Son.



Moreover, I beseech Thee to grant graciously,

through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper,

the petition which through him I humbly place before Thee,

devoutly saving, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, 

if it redounds to Thy greater glory

and to the salvation of my soul.



Amen.



PRAYER IN HONOUR OF ST. ERASMUS



O God, 

grant us through the intercession 

of Thy dauntless bishop and martyr Erasmus, 

who so valiantly confessed the Faith, 

that we may learn the doctrine of this faith, 

practice its precepts, 

and thereby be made worthy 

to attain its promises. 

Through Christ our Lord. 



Amen.



INVOCATION OF ST. ERASMUS



Holy martyr Erasmus, 

who didst willingly 

and bravely bear the trials 

and sufferings of life, 

and by thy charity 

didst console many fellow-sufferers; 

I implore thee to remember me in my needs 

and to intercede for me with God. 

Staunch confessor of the Faith, 

victorious vanquisher of all tortures, 

pray Jesus for me 

and ask Him to grant me 

the grace to live and die 

in the Faith through which 

thou didst obtain the crown of glory. 



Amen.



Prayer



My LORD and my God! 

I offer up to Thee 

my petition in union 

with the bitter passion 

and death of Jesus Christ, 

Thy Son, 

together with the merits 

of His immaculate and blessed Mother, 

Mary ever virgin, 

and of all the saints, 

particularly with those 

of the holy Helper 

in whose honor I make this novena.



Look down upon me, 

merciful Lord! 

Grant me Thy grace and Thy love, 

and graciously hear my prayer. 



Amen.