Novena to San Francesco d'Assisi to ask for a pardon
FIRST DAY
o God enlighten us on the choices of our life and help us to try to imitate the readiness and enthusiasm of St. Francis in fulfilling Your Will.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
SECOND DAY
St. Francis help us to imitate you in contemplating creation as the mirror of the Creator; help us to thank God for the gift of creation; to always have respect for every creature because it is an expression of God's love and to recognize our brother in every created being.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
THIRD DAY
St. Francis, with your humility, teach us not to exalt ourselves before men or before God but to always and only give honor and glory to God as far as He works through us.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
FOURTH DAY
Saint Francis teach us to find time for prayer, the spiritual food of our soul. Remind us that perfect chastity does not require us to avoid creatures of different sex from ours, but asks us to love them only with a love that anticipates on this earth that love that we can fully express in Heaven where we will be "like angels" ( Mk 12,25).
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
FIFTH DAY
St. Francis, remembering your words that "you go up to Heaven from a hovel than from a palace", help us to always seek holy simplicity. Remind us of your detachment from the things of this world in the imitation of Christ and that it is good to be detached from the things of the earth to be ever more inclined towards the realities of Heaven.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
SIXTH DAY
Saint Francis be our teacher on the need to mortify the desires of the body so that they are always subordinated to the needs of the spirit.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
SEVENTH DAY
St. Francis help us to overcome the difficulties with humility and joy. Your example exhorts us to be able to accept even the oppositions of the closest and dearest when God invites us in a way that they do not share, and to know how to humbly live the contrasts in the environment in which we live daily, but firmly defending what it seems useful to us for our good and for those who are close to us, especially for the glory of God.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
EIGHTH DAY
Saint Francis obtain for us your joy and serenity in diseases, thinking that suffering is a great gift from God and should be offered to the pure Father, without being ruined by our complaints. Following your example, we want to endure illnesses patiently without making our pain weigh on others. We try to thank the Lord not only when he gives us joy but also when he allows diseases.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria
NINTH DAY
St. Francis, with your example of joyful acceptance of "sister death", help us to live every moment of our earthly life as a means to achieve the eternal joy that will be the prize of the blessed.
Saint Francis, pray for us.
Father, Ave, Gloria