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.

THIRD DAY – O Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the ARDENT CHARITY which Father Damien from childhood felt for the needy poor, I beg You, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary to grant me in addition to the particular grace of this novena, the grace of having my heart inflamed more and more every day with that Divine Love with which You are inflamed and with which You desire to enkindle the hearts of all. Amen.

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