NOVENA TO SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Glorious Saint Francis,

who voluntarily renounced

all the comforts and riches of your home

to follow more perfectly the life of poverty

and abnegation of Jesus Christ:

obtain for us,

we pray,

a generous contempt of all things in this world,

that we may secure the true

and eternal things of heaven.

Say the .

O glorious Saint Francis,

who during the whole course of your life

continually wept over the passion of the Redeemer,

and labour most zealously for the salvation of souls:

obtain for us,

we pray,

the grace of weeping continually

over those sins

by which we have crucified

afresh Our Lord Jesus Christ,

that we may attain to be of the number

of those who shall eternally bless His supreme mercy.

Say the .

O glorious Saint Francis,

who, loving above all things suffering and the cross,

merited to bear in your body the miraculous stigmata,

by which you became a living image

of Jesus Christ crucified:

obtain for us,

we pray,

the grace to bear in our bodies

the mortifications of Christ,

that we may merit one day

to receive the consolations

which are infallibly promised

to all those who now weep.

"If we be dead with Christ Jesus,

we shall live also with Him," says the Apostle;

"if we suffer,

we shall also reign with Him." [2 Tim. 2:11-12]

Pray for us,

Saint Francis,

that we may obtain the graces and favours

we ask for in this novena;

pray for us, especially,

that we may obtain the grace of perseverance;

of a holy death and a happy eternity.

Say 5 times the ,

the Hail Mary... and the

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