Novena to St. Stanislaus Kostka

O Glorious Saint [N.] wonderful instance of the power of grace! who in thy tenderest years attained the very summit of Christian perfection; receive my most ardent homage, and deign to unite with me in thanking the Almighty for the graces bestowed on thee. O perfect victim of divine charity! fervent follower of a crucified God, whom spotless innocence did not exempt from the rigours of austere penance; thou well knowest all that is necessary to meet the penetrating eye of infinite holiness; look then with compassion on me, consider my misery, and, above all, the cold insensibility of my heart, which, like thine, should live only to love. O blessed Saint! by the glowing zeal which consumed thy soul for the interests of Jesus, by the ineffable transports which now result from the incessant view of his adorable and enchanting perfections, deign to take me under thy particular protection, and solicit for me the intentions of this novena [name them]. Obtain that from this moment I may labour to become truly humble, fervent, and mortified; that, detached from all that is not God, I may daily advance in divine love, purity of heart, ardent devotion to the adorable mystery of the altar, and tender and filial confidence in the sacred mother of God.

And thou, O virgin of virgins! immaculate queen of angels, and dear mother of the angelic [N.;] thou of whose glowing charity and spotless sanctity the most pure and ardent among the saints were but weak images! remember the maternal tenderness with which thou lovest Saint [N.] and obtain for me the grace to imitate all that endeared him to thy sacred heart. Deign to unite thy supplications with mine, for the intentions of this novena; receive me into thy sacred arms during life, and be thou my powerful protectress at the awful hour of death. Amen.