Novena to St. Blaise

Novena to St. Blaise
(One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers)
PREPARATORY PRAYER Almighty and eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshipping Your Divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before You and invoke with filial trust Your supreme generosity and mercy. Illuminate the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Your Heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Your Divine Love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the Saint in whose honor I make this novena, and following their example imitate, as they did, the life of Your Divine Son. Moreover, I beseech You to graciously grant me, through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper, the petition which through them I humbly place before You, devoutly saying, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it is to Your greater glory and the salvation of my soul. Amen.
PRAYER IN HONOR OF ST. BLAISE O God, deliver us through the intercession of Your holy bishop and martyr Blaise, from all evil of soul and body, especially from all ills of the throat. Grant us the grace to make a good confession in the confident hope of obtaining Your pardon, and ever to praise with worthy lips Your Most Holy Name. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. INVOCATION OF ST. BLAISE St. Blaise, compassionate helper of mankind and faithful servant of God, who for the love of Our Savior did suffer so many tortures with patience and resignation, I invoke your powerful intercession. Preserve me from all evils of soul and body. Because of your great merits, God bestowed upon you the special grace to help those who suffer from ills of the throat. Relieve and preserve me from these ailments, so that I may always be able to fulfill my duties, and with God's grace, perform good works. I invoke your help, as special physician of souls, for the grace I need to confess my sins sincerely in the Holy Sacrament of Penance and obtain forgiveness. Through your merciful intercession, I also beg you to aid those who unfortunately conceal sin in confession. Obtain for them the grace to accuse themselves sincerely and contritely of the sin they concealed, the sacrilegious Confessions and Communions they have made, and all the sins they committed since then, so that they may receive pardon, the grace of God, and the remission of the eternal punishment. Amen. PRAYER My Lord and my God! I offer up to You my petition in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Your Son, together with the merits of His Immaculate and Blessed Mother, Mary ever Virgin, and of all the Saints, particularly with those of the Holy Helper, St. Blaise, in whose honor I make this novena. Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Your Grace and Your Love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen.