Novena

In any of you have been counting, you might have noticed that today is the last day of the novena despite the fact that I said it was going to Sunday.

Turns out the Novenas are started the day after Ascension Thursday and finishe the day before Pentecost Sunday, so I started mine a day early. It does not really matter, 'cause it is still a novena, but I just wanted to clear up any confusion (if there was any. I have a feeling nobody was counting).



Glorious Saint Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God.
To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me.
Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor.
Inspire me to imitate you in all things.
May your blessing be with me always, so that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom.

Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life.
Your heart was always full of love, compassion and mercy toward those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. You never dismissed without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to you.
I therefore invoke your powerful intercession, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I earnestly implore.

Obtain for us the graces necessary to see God's will and those required that we may perform his will, no matter our fears or apprehensions, and pray that we may come to love the Lord's will more and more.

Help me, great Saint Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to run in the sweetness of His loving will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.
Amen.