The "novena of grace" so called because it is very effective for obtaining special graces

O most amiable and most beloved Saint Francis Xavier, I reverently adore the divine Majesty. I am delighted with the very special gifts of grace that God has favored you during your earthly life and with those of glory with which he enriched you after death and I warmly thank him. I implore you with all the affection of my heart to ask for me, with your most effective intercession, first of all the grace of living and dying holy. I also beg you to obtain grace for me ... But if what I ask were not according to the greater glory of God and the greater good of my soul, I beg you to beg the Lord to grant me what is most useful to one and to else. Amen. Pater, Ave, Gloria.

To be recited for nine consecutive days

The novena of grace.

On the night between 3 and 4 January 1634 San Francesco Saverio appeared to P. Mastrilli S. who was ill. He instantly healed him and promised him that who, confessed and communicated for 9 days, from March 4th to 12th (day of the saint's canonization), would have implored his intercession would infallibly feel the effects of his protection. Here is the origin of the novena which then spread all over the world. Saint Teresa of Jesus child after making the novena (1896), a few months before dying, said: “I asked for the grace to do good after my death, and now I am sure I have been fulfilled, because by means of this novena you get everything you want. " You can do it whenever you want, some people even recite it 9 times a day.