Novena to St. Barbara
Novena to St. Barbara by email
Receive one prayer each day for 9 days. You can cancel reminders at any time.
Check your inbox
Confirm from the email we sent.
Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers, 1909Source and notes
Novena in Honor of St. Barbara
Source
| Printed in | Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers |
|---|---|
| Imprint | New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers, 1909 |
| Pages | pp. 219, 221, 235–236 |
| Scan | leaf 251, leaf 253, leaf 269, leaf 270 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Imprimi permittitur, Cincinnati, 30 March 1908; Imprimatur, ✠ John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York, March 4, 1909 Copyright, 1909, by Benziger Brothers |
| Transcription | The Preparatory Prayer (printed once, on p. 219) and the closing Prayer (printed once, on p. 221, in the novena to St. George) serve all fourteen novenas; the book points back to them, and they are set here in praying order. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- a special favour, a happy death
Day 1
PREPARATORY PRAYER
ALMIGHTY and eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshiping Thy divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before Thee and invoke with filial trust Thy supreme bounty and mercy. Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Thy heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the saint in whose honor I make this novena, and following his example imitate, like him, the life of Thy divine Son.
Moreover, I beseech Thee to grant graciously, through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper, the petition which through him I humbly place before Thee, devoutly saying, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it redounds to Thy greater glory and to the salvation of my soul. Amen.
PRAYER IN HONOR OF ST. BARBARA
O GOD, who didst adorn Thy holy virgin and martyr Barbara with extraordinary fortitude in the confession of the Faith, and didst console her in the most atrocious torments; grant us through her intercession perseverance in the fulfilment of Thy law and the grace of being fortified before our end with the holy sacraments, and of a happy death. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
INVOCATION OF ST. BARBARA
INTREPID virgin and martyr, St. Barbara, through thy intercession come to my aid in all needs of my soul. Obtain for me the grace to be preserved from a sudden and unprovided death; assist me in my agony, when my senses are benumbed and I am in the throes of death. Then, O powerful patroness of the dying, come to my aid! Repel from me all the assaults and temptations of the evil one, and obtain for me the grace to receive before death the holy sacraments, that I breathe forth my soul confirmed in faith, hope, and charity, and be worthy to enter eternal glory. Amen.
St. Barbara, at my last end
Obtain for me the Sacrament;
Assist one in that direst need
When I my God and Judge must meet:
That robed in sanctifying grace
My soul may stand before His face.
Prayer
MY LORD and my God! I offer up to Thee my petition in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Thy 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 in whose honor I make this novena.
Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Thy grace and Thy love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen.