Novena to St. Vincent de Paul

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(Please recite this Novena for 9 consecutive days)

O Glorious Saint Vincent de Paul, The mention of your name, Suggests a litany of your virtues: Humility, zeal, mercy, self-sacrifice. It also recalls your many foundations: Works of Mercy, Congregations, Societies. The Church gratefully remembers, Your promotion of the priesthood. Inspire all Charitable Workers, Especially those who minister, To both the spiritually And the materially poor. O Lord, give us the grace, That You bestowed upon, Your servant St. Vincent de Paul, To relinquish the temptation, Of material things, In our holy effort, To minister to the poor. Amen.

The Litany of St. Vincent de Paul

Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

The just shall spring up like the lily, R. And flourish forever before the Lord. (Alleluia.)

Holy Mary, Mother of God…Pray for us.

Holy Mary, comforter of the afflicted…Pray for us.

Saint Vincent de Paul…Pray for us.

St. Vincent, who at the most tender age did display a wisdom most mature…

St. Vincent, who from thy childhood were full of pity and compassion…

St. Vincent, who like David, from a simple shepherd became a ruler and pastor of the people of God…

St. Vincent, who in thy captivity by Turkish pirates did preserve perfect freedom…

St. Vincent the just man, who did live by faith…

St. Vincent, always supported on the firm anchor of a Christian hope…

St. Vincent, always inflamed with the fire of perfect charity…

St. Vincent, truly simple, upright, and fearing God…

St. Vincent, true disciple of Jesus Christ, always meek and humble of heart…

St. Vincent, perfectly mortified in heart and mind…

St. Vincent, ever animated with the spirit of Our Lord…

St. Vincent, generous maintainer of the glory of God…

St. Vincent, ever inwardly burning and ever outwardly transported with
zeal for souls…Pray for us.

St. Vincent, who in Christian poverty did find the precious pearl and the
rich treasure of the Gospel…Pray for us.

St. Vincent, like to the Angels in thy purity…

St. Vincent, faithful in obedience and victorious in word and deed…

St. Vincent, who didst fly the slightest appearance of evil…

St. Vincent, who in all thine actions did aspire to the practice of perfect virtue…

St. Vincent, who didst remain like a rock amid the stormy sea of this world…

St. Vincent, invincible amidst the arrows of adversity…

St. Vincent, as patient in suffering as thou were indulgent in forgiving…

St. Vincent, ever docile and obedient son of the Holy See…

St. Vincent, who had exceeding horror of the novel ways and subtle words
of heretics…

St. Vincent, destined by a special Providence to announce the Gospel to the poor…

St. Vincent, father and model of ecclesiastics…

St. Vincent, prudent founder of the Congregation of the Mission…

St. Vincent, wise institutor of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity…

St. Vincent, tender in compassionating and prompt in relieving the necessities of the poor…

St. Vincent, equally fervent in the practice of prayer and in ministry of the word…

St. Vincent, admirable in imitation of the life and virtues of Jesus…

St. Vincent, who did persevere to the end in shunning evil and doing good…

St. Vincent, who as in life so in death were most precious in the sight of God…

St. Vincent, glory of France and pride of Paris…

St. Vincent, patron of all charitable associations…

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.

V. The Lord has led the just man through right ways.
R. And showed unto him the Kingdom of God.

Let Us Pray: O God, Who by an effect of Thine infinite goodness, have renewed in our days, in the apostolic character and humility of Thy blessed servant Vincent, the spirit of Thy well-beloved Son – to preach the Gospel to the poor, relieve the afflicted, console the miserable, and add new luster to the ecclesiastical order – grant, we beseech Thee, through his powerful intercession, that we also, delivered from the great misery of sin, may labor to please Thee by the practice of the same humility, through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. R. Amen.

O God, Who for the preaching of the Gospel to the poor, and for promoting the honor of the priesthood, did imbue the Blessed Vincent with the zeal of an apostle, grant, we humbly pray Thee, that we who venerate his holy life may profit by the examples of virtue he has left us. Through Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.

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