Novena To Saint Catherine of Alexandria # 2 (1 of the 14 Holy Helpers)

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

PREPARATORY PRAYER

Almighty and eternal God!
With lively faith and reverently worshipping
Your Divine Majesty,
I prostrate myself before You
and invoke with filial trust
Your supreme generosity and mercy.
Illuminate the darkness of my intellect
with a ray of Your Heavenly light
and inflame my heart
with the fire of Your Divine Love,
that I may contemplate the great virtues
and merits of the Saint
in whose honor I make this novena,
and following their example imitate,
as they did, the life of Your Divine Son.

Moreover, I beseech You to graciously grant me,
through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper,
the petition which through them
I humbly place before You, devoutly saying,
"Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."

Vouchsafe graciously to hear it,
if it is to Your greater glory and the salvation of my soul.

Amen.
 

PRAYER IN HONOR OF SAINT CATHERINE

O God, Who distinguished Your holy virgin and martyr Catherine
by the gift of great wisdom and virtue,
and a victorious combat with the enemies of the Faith,
grant us, we beseech You,
through her intercession,
constancy in the Faith and the wisdom of the saints,
that we may devote all the powers of our mind and heart to Your service.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

INVOCATION OF SAINT CATHERINE

Saint Catherine, glorious virgin and martyr,
resplendent in the luster of wisdom and purity!
Your wisdom refuted the enemies of Divine Truth
and covered them with confusion.
Your immaculate purity made you a spouse of Christ,
so that after your glorious martyrdom
Holy Angels carried your body to Mount Sinai.
Implore for me progress in the science of the saints
and the virtue of holy purity,
that vanquishing the enemies of my soul,
I may be victorious in my last combat
and after death be conducted by the Holy Angels
into the eternal beatitude of Heaven.

Amen.

PRAYER

My Lord and my God!
I offer up to You my petition
in union with the bitter passion
and death of Jesus Christ, Your 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, Saint Catherine,
in whose honor I make this novena.
Look down upon me, merciful Lord!
Grant me Your Grace and Your Love,
and graciously hear my prayer.

Amen.