Novena to SS. Louis and Zélie Martin

Day 8

10 min

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

Novena to SS. Louis and Zélie Martin

Opening prayer:

Holy spouses Louis and Zélie Martin, you made your home a school of faith and your marriage a path to heaven. As I begin this novena, obtain for me the grace to seek holiness in the duties of each ordinary day. Help me to love God in my family and my work. Amen.

Read the meditation and offer the intention of the day.

Day 8: Suffering accepted in love

Zélie bore her long fight with breast cancer without complaint, continuing to care for her family until the end and entrusting herself to God's will. Louis, after her death, endured paralysis and confinement in his final years with serene faith, even thanking God for the humiliation as a purifying gift. They teach us to unite our own suffering to the Cross of Christ, accepting it in love and finding in it a path to deeper holiness.

O holy spouses Louis and Zélie, who bore long illness and humiliation with serene faith, obtain for me the grace to accept my own sufferings in love and to unite them to the Cross of Christ, that what is painful may become purifying and lead me nearer to God. Amen.

Today's intention:

For the grace to accept suffering and unite it to Christ's Cross.

Pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

Closing prayer:

Saints Louis and Zélie, who trusted God through joy and sorrow and gave Him your children, intercede for all families and for mine. Teach husbands and wives to sanctify one another, and parents to raise their children for heaven. Obtain for us the grace to say in all things, 'God's will be done.' Amen.

Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.