Novena To Saint Denis (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 DENIS

O God, Who conferred Your saving Faith on the people of France
through Your holy bishop and martyr Denis,
and did glorify him before and after his martyrdom by many miracles.
Grant us, through his intercession,
that the Faith practiced and preached by him
may be our light on the way of life,
so that we may be preserved from all anxieties of conscience,
and if by human frailty we have sinned,
we may return to You speedily by true penance.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

INVOCATION OF SAINT DENIS

Glorious servant of God, Saint Denis,
with intense love did you devote yourself to Christ
after learning to know Him through the apostle Saint Paul.
Preaching His saving name to the nations,
and bringing the knowledge and love of God,
for Who’s sake you did not shrink from martyrdom.
Implore for me a continual growth
in the knowledge and love of Jesus,
so that my restless heart
may experience that peace
which He alone can give.
Help me by thy powerful intercession with God
to serve Him with a willing heart,
to devote myself with steadfast love to His service,
and thereby to attain the eternal bliss 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 Denis,
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.