Novena to St. Bartholomew
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A Help to Devotion, 1853Source and notes
St. Bartholomew
Day 1
August 24th.
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By that especial gift of prayer which caused you, O great apostle St. Bartholomew, never to omit to prostrate yourself many times a day in adoration of the Divine Majesty, notwithstanding your frequent journeys and continual labours, when announcing the words of salvation to barbarous nations: obtain for us the grace to place all our pleasure in exercises of piety, and to prefer them to every other thing in the world. Gloria.
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By that wonderful power which you had, O great apostle St. Bartholomew, over devils, casting them out of possessed persons, and overturning all the false gods which they had caused to be worshipped: obtain for us the grace to resist constantly all the assaults of the devil, and to avoid most carefully all which might enable our enemies to triumph over our weakness. Gloria.
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By that heroic courage which enabled you, O great apostle St. Bartholomew, to sustain the agony of being flayed alive, and afterwards beheaded, continuing amidst all your torments to preach the Gospel of salvation: obtain for us the grace always to bear with Christian resignation all the evils of life, and to be always ready to suffer the most cruel tortures, rather than deviate for an instant from the way of truth and justice. Gloria.