Novena to St. Alphonsus Liguori

Day 2

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 St. Alphonsus Liguori

Opening prayer:

Glorious St. Alphonsus, who left the honors of the world to serve the souls most forgotten, obtain for me a heart on fire with love of God. Teach me, by your tenderness toward sinners, never to despair of God's mercy. Amen.

Read the meditation and offer the intention of the day.

Day 2: Love for the poor and abandoned

Alphonsus founded the Redemptorists to carry the Gospel to the goatherds and country folk of the hills around Naples, whom no one else reached. He preached in plain words the poor could understand, never seeking the applause of the learned. He shows us that Christ's love seeks out those whom the world overlooks, and that the Gospel is not a possession of the comfortable but bread to be carried to the forgotten and the lost.

O zealous Saint Alphonsus, who carried the Gospel to the poor and abandoned, obtain for me a heart that loves the forgotten. Open my eyes to those the world overlooks, and let me bring them the mercy of Christ in word and deed, seeking no reward but His glory. Amen.

Today's intention:

For a heart that reaches out to the poor and the forgotten.

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:

St. Alphonsus, doctor of prayer and herald of Mary, lead me ever closer to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to His Mother, our hope. Obtain for me the grace I now ask, and above all the grace of final perseverance. 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.