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.

SECOND DAY – O sacred Heart of Jesus, remembering the UNDAUNTED HOPE which sustained Father Damien during all his life and confiding in Your Paternal Providence, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary I humbly beg You that in addition to the particular grace I ask in this novena, to grant me the favor  of never becoming discouraged in the adversities of this life and furthermore of being so strongly encouraged by heavenly hope that I might always live confidently in Your Merciful Love, Amen.

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