Divine Mercy Novena
Mercy, conversion of sinners
Feast: Divine Mercy Sunday (Sunday after Easter)
Traditionally prayed from Good Friday through Divine Mercy Sunday (Saturday after Easter).
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A novena is a nine-day cycle of prayer with deep roots in Catholic tradition. The Apostles prayed the very first novena with Mary between the Ascension and Pentecost (Acts 1:14); every novena since takes that as its model.
Each novena below includes a day-by-day guide with meditations, the daily prayer, and primary-source citations from vatican.va or from the religious orders that custodian the devotion.
Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Devotion to the Heart of Christ; the home and family
Feast: Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Friday after Corpus Christi)
Traditionally prayed in the nine days leading up to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart in June.
Open the 9-day guide →Novena to the Holy Spirit (Pentecost Novena)
The Third Person of the Holy Trinity; gifts of the Spirit
Feast: Pentecost Sunday (50 days after Easter)
Traditionally prayed in the nine days between the Solemnity of the Ascension (Thursday of the sixth week of Easter) and Pentecost Sunday.
Open the 9-day guide →Novena to St. Jude Thaddeus
Hopeless cases, desperate situations, lost causes
Feast: Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles (October 28)
Any nine consecutive days.
Open the 9-day guide →Novena to St. Joseph
The Universal Church, fathers, workers, a happy death, the home
Feast: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (March 19); also St. Joseph the Worker (May 1)
Traditionally prayed in the nine days leading up to March 19 (Solemnity of St.
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