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.

FIRST DAY – O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the GENEROSITY with which Father Damien responded to Your divine call, always seeing in everything with great faith the Holy Will of God, I earnestly beg You through the Immaculate Heart of Mary that in addition to the particular favor I ask in this novena, to grant me the grace of being always faithful to Your Will so that the faith I received in Baptism may grow and deepen unceasingly in my soul. Amen.

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