Novena To Saint Bartholomew, The Apostle

Repeat the following Novena prayers every day for 9 consecutive days.

In the name of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit,

Amen.

OPENING PRAYER:

O Eternal God and loving father,
you have given us the glorious Apostle Bartholomew
as our beloved Patron Saint
and powerful advocate in heaven.
We offer you our prayers,
animated by a spirit of confidence
that through the efficacious intercession of Saint Bartholomew,
we shall merit your unfailing help and protection
and shall ever remain loyal and devoted
to Divine will all the days of our life.

Teach us to cherish, proclaim,
and practice the Gospel message of Christ,
which Saint Bartholomew so eloquently preached
and finally sealed with his heroic martyrdom.
 

As we prepare devoutly for his solemn feast
by this Novena of prayers,
we trustingly raise our minds and hearts to you.
Refuse not, o Lord God, our humble petition
but unite it with that of Apostle Bartholomew
and of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Queen of the Apostles,
so that we may obtain the grace of true repentance for our sins,
of divine assistance in our spiritual and temporal wants,
and of constant fidelity to all our Christian duties.
This we ask through Jesus Christ, Our Lord,

Amen.

In silence...

[Mention your intentions here...]

PETITIONS:

Leader : O glorious Saint Bartholomew the Apostle,
our shining model of preserving faith,
Response : Pray for us.

Say 1 Our Father...

Say 1 Hail Mary...

Say 1 Glory Be...

Leader : O glorious Saint Bartholomew the Apostle,
our perfect example of enduring hope,
Response : Pray for us.

Say 1 Our Father...

Say 1 Hail Mary...

Say 1 Glory Be...

Leader : O glorious Saint Bartholomew the Apostle,
our perfect prototype of consuming charity,
Response : Pray for us.

Say 1 Our Father...

Say 1 Hail Mary...

Say 1 Glory Be...

A Prayer to Saint Bartholomew, for the Church

O holy apostle,
the Church prays for grace to love what you did believe
and to preach what you did teach.
Not that the bride of the Son of God could ever fail
either in faith or in love;
but she knows only too well that,
though her Head is ever in the light,
and her heart ever united to the Spouse
in the Holy Sprit who sanctifies her,
nevertheless her several members,
the particular Churches of which she is composed,
may detach themselves from their center of life
and wander away in darkness.
O You who did choose our West as the place of your rest;
you whose precious relics Rome glories in possess ding,
bring back to Peter the nations you did evangelize;
fulfill the now reviving hopes of universal union;
second the efforts made by the vicar of the Man-God
to gather again under the shepherd’s crook
those scattered flocks whose pastures have become parched by schism.
May your own Armenia be the first to complete a return
which she began long ago;
may she trust the mother-Church
and no more follow the sowers of discord.
All being reunited,
may we together enjoy the treasures of our concordant traditions,
and go to God, even at the cost of being despoiled of all things,
by course so grand and yet so simple taught us
by thy example and by thy sublime theology.