The Novena Chaplet of Saint Francis of Assisi
On the Medal, Pray
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.
On he first bead, pray
1 Glory Be, followed by
O glorious Saint Francis, who during the whole
course of your life continually wept over the passion of the Redeemer,
and labor 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.
On the second bead, pray
1 Glory Be, followed by
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.
Optional Novena Prayers on the center
"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." (2nd Timothy 2.11-12)
Pray for us, Saint Francis, that we may obtain the graces and favors 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.
On each set of three beads, pray
1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, 1 Glory Be |
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen |
