A Novena to Saint Therese beginning on her Feast Day

by | Oct 1, 2009 | Novena to Saint Therese | 4 comments

Start with:

Saint Therese, flower of Carmel, you said you would spend your heaven doing good upon the earth. Your trust in God was complete. Listen to my prayer; bring before God my special intention…

Pray for me that I may have something of your confidence in the loving promises of our God. Pray that I may live my life in union with God’s plan for me, and one day see the Face of God who you so ardently loved.

Saint Therese, you kept your word to love God and to trust the world to that loving providence. Pray for us that we may be faithful to our commitment to love. May our lives, like yours, be able to touch the world and bring it to peace.

DAY ONE

Loving God, you blessed St. Therese with a capacity for a great love. Help us to believe in your unconditional love for each of us.

DAY TWO

Loving God, you loved St. Therese’s complete trust in your care. Help us to rely on your providential care for us in each circumstance of our lives.

DAY THREE

Loving God, you graced St. Therese with a capacity to see your hand in the ordinary routine of each day. Help us to be aware of your presence in the everyday events of our lives.

DAY FOUR

Loving God, you taught St. Therese how to find a direct way to you through the “little way” of humility and simplicity. Grant that we may never miss the grace there is in humble service to others in family and neighborhood.

DAY FIVE

Loving God, you graced St. Therese with the gift of forgiving others even when she felt hurt and betrayed. Help us to be able to forgive others who have wounded us, especially…

DAY SIX

Loving God, St. Therese experienced each day as a gift from You, as a time for loving and through others. May we, too, see each new day as a single moment of saying yes to Your will in our lives.

DAY SEVEN

Loving God, St. Therese offered to You her frailty and powerlessness. Help us to see in our weakness and our diminishments an opportunity for letting Your light and Your strength be all we need.

DAY EIGHT

Loving God, You shepherded St. Therese with a gracious love and made her a tower of strength to people who had lost faith in You. Help us to be unafraid to pray with confidence for the many in our culture who do not believe they can be loved.

DAY NINE

Loving God, St. Therese never doubted that her life had meaning. Help us to understand our possibilities for loving and blessing our children, our elderly parents, our neighbours in need, and for priests throughout the world.

To conclude this novena: Recite one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.

4 Comments

  1. Sarah

    Oh, thanks for this, Jessica. We weren't able to do the novena to St. Therese before her feast day. But now we can start this one tonight. Enjoy the day =)

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  2. Lenetta

    Thank you for posting this! I have left it as unread in my Reader so I would remember to come back every day. Novenas are kind of a new thing to me and I'm finding how much I enjoy them!

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  3. dan

    I am thankful for this novena. I am really excited by its outcome. I am sure I will receive a flower from St.Therese soon. God will receive our prayers through the intercession of His saint.

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  4. Vittoria Friedman

    I’m on Day Three of this novena and I already feel St Therese’s presence, intervention and gifts. Yesterday evening, inspired by some classical paintings, I researched John the Baptist and the Holy Family in exile and came across the writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich. I’m a recently -converted Catholic, having received the grace of faith after 48 years of agnosticism, so I am constantly surprised by the wealth of miraculous historical events unknown to the general public, this lady’s revelatory writings take the cake. I feel so enthusiastic, engrossed, and enriched as I begin to read Anne Catherine Emmerich ‘s histories …and it seems to me that the gift of this new wealth of knowledge, received mid-novena, is like so many flowers from heaven from St Therese the Little Flower 🌼

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