Novena to St. Catherine of Alexandria
(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. CATHERINE

O God, Who distinguished Your holy virgin and martyr Catherine by the gift of great wisdom and virtue, and a victorious combat with the enemies of the Faith, grant us, we beseech You, through her intercession, constancy in the Faith and the wisdom of the saints, that we may devote all the powers of our mind and heart to Your service. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

INVOCATION OF ST. CATHERINE

St. Catherine, glorious virgin and martyr, resplendent in the luster of wisdom and purity! Your wisdom refuted the enemies of Divine Truth and covered them with confusion. Your immaculate purity made you a spouse of Christ, so that after your glorious martyrdom Holy Angels carried your body to Mount Sinai. Implore for me progress in the science of the saints and the virtue of holy purity, that vanquishing the enemies of my soul, I may be victorious in my last combat and after death be conducted by the Holy Angels into the eternal beatitude of Heaven. 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. Catherine, 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.