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Prayer
to Saint Expeditus for each day.
Oh Saint Expedite, my
protector, in you I place my hope that my petition may be granted if
they are for my own good. Please ask Our Lord, through the
intercession of the Blessed Virgin, for the forgiveness of my sins,
and the grace to change my life, particularly the grace …
(mention here the particular grace desired) and I promise to follow
your examples and will propagate this devotion to you.
Act of
Contrition to be said every day also -
My LORD Jesus Christ,
Father of endless charity, I am heartily sorry for my sins.
Grant me therefore, pardon of my sins and the grace I ask of you thru
the merits of the sorrows of Your loving Mother and the virtues of
Your martyr Saint Expeditus.
Follow with these prayers for the
nine days of the Novena, to be repeated every nine days until your
request is granted.
First Day:
O Glorious Martyr, Saint
Expeditus, through the lively faith which was granted you by God, I
ask you to awaken the same faith in my heart, that I also may believe
wholeheartedly that there is God, but most particularly that I may be
saved from sinning against him.
Three Our Fathers in honor of
the Most Holy Trinity then the concluding prayer which is:
Remember
O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who
fled to they protection, implored thy help and sought thine
intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I
fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins my Mother. To thee I come,
before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word
Incarnate, despise not my words by graciously hear and grant my
prayer. Amen.
Then One Hail Mary in honor of Our Lady of
Sorrows.
Second Day:
Say the Act of Contrition, My Lord
Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr, Saint Expedite,
through the eviable hope given you by God, pray that those of little
believe may be penetrated by some rays of hope so that they also
receive eternal things; please pray that ardent hope in God be also
given me and hole me steadfast in the midst of sufferings.
Three
Our Fathers and the Concluding prayer.
Third Day:
Say
the Act of Contrition, My Lord Jesus Christ……
O
Glorious Martyr Saint Expeditus, through the endless love which Our
Lord planted in you heart, please remove from mine all the shackles
tied by worldliness, that without them I may love only God in all
eternity. Amen.
Three Our Fathers and the Concluding
prayer.
Fourth Day:
Say the Act of Contrition, My Lord
Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr Saint Expeditus,
who knew fully well the teaching of the Divine Teacher to carry the
cross and follow Him, ask Him for the graces I need that I may fight
my own passions.
Three Our Fathers and the concluding
prayer.
Fifth Day:
Say the Act of Contrition, My Lord
Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr Saint Expeditus,
through the bountiful graces you received from Heaven that you may
conserve all you virtues, grant also that I may get rid of all the
feelings that block my way to heaven.
Three Our Fathers and
the concluding prayer.
Sixth Day:
Say the Act of
Contrition, My Lord Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr
Saint Expeditus, through the sufferings and humiliations which you
received for the love of God grant me also this grace which is very
pleasing to God, and free me from anger and hardness of heart which
is the stumbling block of my soul.
Three Our Fathers and the
concluding prayer.
Seventh Day:
Say the Act of
Contrition, My Lord Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr
Saint Expeditus, you know that prayer is the golden key that will
open the Kingdom of Heaven, teach me to pray in a manner which is
desirable to Our Lord and to His Heart, that I may live only for Him,
that I may die only for Him, and that I may pray only to Him in all
eternity.
Three Our Fathers and the concluding prayer.
Eighth
Day:
Say the Act of Contrition, My Lord Jesus Christ……
O
Glorious Martyr Saint Expeditus, through the clean desire that
reigned in all you feelings, word and actions, please let them guide
me also in my endless search for the glory of God and the good of my
fellowmen.
Three Our Fathers and the concluding
prayer.
Ninth Day:
Say the Act of Contrition, My
Lord Jesus Christ……
O Glorious Martyr Saint
Expeditus, who was so much loved by the Queen of Heaven, that to you
nothing was denied, ask her please my advocate, that through the
sufferings of her Divine Son and her own sorrows, I may receive this
day the grace I ask of you; but above all the grace to die first
before I commit any mortal sin. Amen
Three Our Fathers
and the concluding prayer.
