Happy Wednesday everybody! And happy start to a new novena!
St. Jane Frances is a patron for women, especially widows (the religious community she founded accepted women who were rejected by other orders due to their age), and mothers. She is also the patron of in-law problems (!), and those who have lost their parents.
If you'd like to join us in the novena, I am linking to the prayer
here, as well as including the text below:
Novena to St. Jane Frances de Chantal
O Glorious Saint, Blessed Jane Frances, who by thy fervent prayer,
attention to the divine Presence, and purity of intention in thy
actions, didst attain on earth an intimate union withGod, be now our
advocate , our mother, our guide in the path of virtue and perfection.
Plead our cause near Jesus, Mary and Joseph, to whom thou wast so
tenderly devoted, and whose holy virtues thou didst so closely imitate.
Obtain for us, O amiable and compassionate saint the virtues thou seest
most necessary for us; an ardent love of Jesus in the Most Holy
Sacrament, a tender and filial confidence in His blessed Mother, and
like thee, a constant remembrance of His sacred passion and death.
Obtain also, we pray thee, that our particular intention in this novena
may be fulfilled.
V. St. Jane Frances, pray for us.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
Almighty
and merciful God, who didst grant blessed Saint Jane Frances, so
inflamed with the love of Thee, a wonderful degree of fortitude through
all the paths of life, and wast pleased through her to adorn Thy Church
with a new Religious order; grant, by her merits and prayers, that we,
who sensible of our weakness confide in Thy strength, may overcome all
adversities with the help of Thy heavenly grace, through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.
O great Saint Jane Frances! who, to follow the inspirations of the Holy
Spirit, when thou wert called to the religious state, didst despise all
the ties of nature and of blood; obtain for us also the grace to
correspond faithfully with all divine impulses, and to sacrifice to God
whatever is most dear and precious to us. Amen.
* Source:
Blessed Sacrament Book by Francis Xavier Lasance
Are you praying the novena along with us this month? Write in and let me know!
