PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY

     O Sacred Heart of Jesus!  I feel an immense joy and unlimited confidence in contemplating the numerous favors which You grant to those who with faith and humility have recourse to You through the mediation of Your beloved servant, Father Damien, who for love of You overcame the repugnance of his senses and gave himself up, body and soul, to the care of the poor lepers of Molokai.

     Impelled by confidence in his power of intercession with You and inspired by his ardent charity for all the afflicted, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You with all the fervor of which I am capable, this novena of praise and petition to obtain the grace for which I ask, if it be for Your greater glory, and the good of my soul, or if not, I beg for the grace to resign myself entirely to Your adorable designs in this request which I commend to You.  Amen.

FIFTH DAY – O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through that INQUENCHABLE ZEAL for the temporal and spiritual good of his beloved lepers which consumed the soul of Father Damien, even to the point of causing him to give his life for them, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary I humbly beseech You that in addition to the particular grace I ask in this novena, to grant me the grace of being more truly concerned with my spiritual welfare and the salvation of others. Amen.

        Petition………………………………………Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc.