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A novena prayer card to St. Francis of Assisi. On the front of the prayer card is an image of St. Francis and on the back is the novena.
1. O Glorious St. Francis,
who voluntarily renounced all the comforts and
riches of your home to follow more perfectly the life
of poverty and total surrender to Jesus Christ;
obtain for us, we pray, a generous contempt of all
things in this world that we may secure the true
and eternal things of heaven.
Glory be to the Father...
2. O glorious St. Francis
who, during the whole course of your life,
continually wept over the Passion of the Redeemer,
and labored most zealously for the salvation of
souls; obtain for us, we pray, the grace of weeping
continually over those sins by which we have again
crucified Our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may
attain to be of the member of those
who shall eternally bless His supreme mercy.
Glory be to the Father...
3. O glorious St. Francis,
who, loving above all things, suffering and the
cross, did earn to bear in your body the miraculous
stigmata, by which you become a living image of
Jesus Christ crucified; obtain for us, we pray, the
grace to bear in our bodies the mortifications of
Christ, that we may merit one day to receive the
solid and unfailing consolations which are infallibly
promised to all those that now weep,
Glory be to the Father...
Feast on October 4th