Novena to Saint Benedict for Spiritual Protection and to obtain a special favor

 

Put Christ before everything. Do not place absolutely anything before Christ – From The Rule of Saint Benedict

Patron Saint of: Against witchcraft, temptations, poisoning, dying people, monks, kidney disease, fever, civil engineers, school children

Prayer to St. Benedict

(Can be said as a Novena for Nine Consecutive Days)

By the sign ✠ of the holy cross, from ✠ our enemies, deliver us ✠, O Lord

† In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Intro Prayer

O glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel of God’s grace! Behold me, humbly kneeling at thy feet.

I implore thy loving heart to pray for me before the throne of God.

To thee I have recourse in all the dangers which daily surround me.

Shield me against my enemies, inspire me to imitate thee in all things.

May thy blessing be with me always, so that I may shun whatever God forbids and avoid the occasions of sin.

Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces of which I stand so much in need, in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life.

Thy heart was always so full of love, compassion, and mercy toward those who were afflicted or troubled in any way.

Thou didst never dismiss without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to thee.

I therefore invoke thy powerful intercession, in the confident hope that thou wilt hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I so earnestly implore, and that I ask for the greater glory of God and the welfare of my soul (mention your intentions here) and that I entrust you so that they have a favorable solution. Amen.

Concluding Prayer

Help me, O great St. Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to be ever submissive to His holy will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.

† In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.