Nine days of prayer

Traditional Catholic novenas

The full texts, free — a novena is nine consecutive days of prayer for a particular intention, after the pattern of the apostles between the Ascension and Pentecost. Every text here is copied word for word from a public-domain Catholic book printed before 1930, and each page names its source.

When to start each one: the novena calendar

• Novena to the Holy SpiritSt Alphonsus Liguori · ten days, Ascension to Pentecost
• Novena to St. JosephMeditations and prayers · Irish Messenger Office, 1926
• Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual HelpRedemptorist novena · with St Alphonsus' daily prayer
• Novena to the Sacred Heart of JesusSt Alphonsus Liguori · nine meditations and prayers
• Novena to St. Thérèse of LisieuxFrom Blessed Be God (1925) · a prayer for each day
• Novena to St. Anthony of PaduaThe Nine Tuesdays prayers · with the Responsory
• Novena to St. JudeApostle · patron of desperate cases · 1929 shrine prayers
• Novena to St. Michael the ArchangelPrayers of the Raccolta · Prince of the heavenly host
• Novena to the Immaculate Heart of MaryThe Raccolta's prayer to the Heart of Mary
• Novena to St. Rita of CasciaAugustinian novena, Chicago 1914 · nine meditations
• Novena to Our Lady of GuadalupePatroness of the Americas · prayers printed in 1897