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.

NINTH DAY – O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through that IMMENSE LOVE WHICH FATHER DAMIEN HAD FOR THE DIVINE EUCHARIST as Food for his soul in his Masses and Communions and as his consolation in his fervent adorations before the Tabernacle, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary I ardently beg You that in addition to the particular grace I ask in this novena, to grant me an increase of devotion to Holy Mass and to the Blessed Sacrament and that each day I may prepare my heart more worthily and more fervently to receive You in Holy Communion.  Amen.

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