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.

SEVENTH DAY – O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through that CONSTANCY AND ADMIRABLE FORTITUDE with which Father Damien suffered first in others, then in his own body, the painful disease of leprosy, uniting his pain to the pain of solitude and helplessness to remedy the needy around him, I humbly 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 accepting always with resignation the sufferings and tribulations of this life Amen.

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