St. Benedict Prayers
Novena Prayer to St. Benedict
Glorious Saint Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God.
To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me. Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor.
Inspire me to imitate you in all things.
May your blessing be with me always, so that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom.
Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries, and afflictions of life. Your heart was always full of love, compassion, and mercy toward those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. You never dismissed without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to you. I therefore invoke your powerful interces-sion, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I earnestly im-plore. (Mention your petition.)
Help me, great Saint Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to run in the sweetness of His loving will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.
Prayer to St. Benedict for protection
Dear Saint Benedict, I thank God for showering you with His grace to love Him above all else and to establish a monastic rule that has helped so many of His children live full and holy lives.
Through the cross of Jesus Christ, I ask you to please intercede that God might protect me, my loved ones, my home, property, possessions, and workplace today and always by your holy blessing, that we may never be separated from Jesus, Mary, and the company of all the blessed. Through your intercession may we be delivered from temptation, spiritual oppression, physical ills, and disease. Protect us from drug and alcohol abuse, impurity and immorality, objectionable companions, and negative attitudes. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Litany of St. Benedict
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
R. Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, One God, Holy Mary, R. Pray for us.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins, Holy Father, Saint Benedict,
Father most reverend, Father most renowned,
Father most compassionate, Man of great fortitude, Man of venerable life, Man of the most holy conversation,
True servant of God, Light of devotion, Light of prayer,
Light of contemplation,
Star of the world,
Best master of an austere life,
Leader of the holy warfare, Leader and chief of monks, Master of those who die to the world,
Protector of those who cry to thee, Wonderful worker of miracles, R. Pray for us.
Revealer of the secrets of the human heart,
Master of spiritual discipline, Companion of the patriarchs,
Equal of the prophets, Follower of the Apostles, Teacher of martyrs,
Father of many pontiffs,
Gem of abbots,
Glory of confessors,
Imitator of anchorites, Associate of virgins,
Colleague of all the saints, Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord!
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord!
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us!
V. Intercede for us, O holy father Saint Benedict,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray: O God, Who has called us from the vanity of the world, and Who incites us to the reward of a heavenly vocation under the guidance of our holy patriarch and founder, Saint Benedict, inspire and purity our hearts and pour forth on us Your grace, that we may persevere in You. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
