Praying to the little saint of Lisieux is a source of great graces. Faced with so many answered prayers, Pope Pius XI even said at the time: “It’s a deluge, a glory hurricane the one that is falling on Lisieux!”
There are many ways to address Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face: Of course you can pray with your heart, but you can also pray with Saint Therese’s prayers, pray with her poems, or pray during a Rose Petals evening. It is true that sometimes we need or want to go deeper into prayer, which is why it is good if we pray once novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux.
Novena – Holiness for all, with Saint Therese
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Novena to Saint Therese
Here is a simple novena that consists of saying this prayer for nine days. Remember that you should start by crossing yourself, while saying:
“By the sign of the holy cross, from our enemies, deliver us, Lord, our God. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
Then, you must pray the initial prayer, then the prayer of the corresponding day, and finish with the final prayer, which are detailed below.
Prayers to pray every day
opening sentence
“Oh Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, model of humility, trust and love! From the heights of the heavens, pluck over us those roses that you carry in your arms: the rose of humility, so that we surrender our pride and accept the yoke of the Gospel; the rose of trust, so that we abandon ourselves to the Will of God and rest in His Mercy; the rose of love so that by opening our souls without measure to grace, we can achieve the only purpose for which God has created us in His Image: To love Him and make Him love You who spend your Heaven doing good on earth, help me in this need and grant me from the Lord what I ask of you if it is to be for the glory of God and the good of my soul. So be it.”
closing sentence
Jaculatory. “Oh saint without equal! Show us the “little path” of your spiritual childhood.”
“My glorious little saint! I confidently hope that you will obtain from God the special grace that I ask of you in this novena. On the other hand, I promise to imitate, with all my strength, your heroic examples, and appropriate the pages of your enchanting life so that I may have the joy of enjoying God in your company in the homeland of the saints. In the meantime, I want, like you, oh Little Flower of Jesus, to “pluck” the flowers of my caresses on earth at the feet of the Love of Loves and sing to the divine your charming harmonies:
For only your loves,
Jesus my beloved,
I put my life in you
my glory and future;
And since for the world
I am a withered flower
I have no more longing
than loving you, to die…”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Prayers for each particular day
Prayer for the first day
“Little flower of Jesus! For that volcano of love that inflamed your heart, whose divine burnings were the sweet martyrdom that consumed your life “with inflamed longing for love”, make me too, oh Saint Therese! Only to God totally surrender my heart with all the hopes of him and with all the dreams of him, so that he transforms him and resurrects him and saves him. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the second day
“Little flower of Jesus! By the perfumes of holiness that you exhaled during your life, hidden like a humble violet in the Carmel garden, make it possible for my soul, free from the bad smells of sin, to please God with the sweet smell of Christian virtues. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the third day
“Little flower of Jesus! For the steps of innocence and candor that you took on the flowery path of your little path, which was the path of spiritual childhood, make sure that the steps of my life do not run along the paths of perdition; but, step by step, climb the path -uphill- that leads to glory. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the fourth day
“Little flower of Jesus! For the heavenly purity that adorned your heart like the lilies in the valleys and the “snow” in the heights, reach me, lily of Carmel, purity in thoughts, words and deeds. Defend me in temptation, and cover with the lilies of your purity the ugliness of this poor restless and passionate heart of mine. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the fifth day
“Little flower of Jesus! For the great effort that you put into “passing through the Earth doing good”, and in spreading love and hope in hearts, make me spend my life sowing goodness to receive up there the sure reward of a hundredfold with the lasting and happy life. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the sixth day
“Little flower of Jesus! Because of that continuous tendency to “become small” that was the theme of your holy life, let me also know that I am such a “little soul” that finds true greatness in the arms of sacrifice and the Cross; and learn to be great in small things and love humility… the “littleness”, to enter more easily through the gates of glory to eternal joy. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the seventh day
“Little flower of Jesus! For that continuous martyrdom that your spirit suffered in the incessant denial of nature, make it learn to deny my whims and fickleness and pay, like you, the contempt of others with a heroic and heavenly smile. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the eighth day
“Little flower of Jesus! For the admirable patience with which you knew how to hide and suffer the illnesses that they put you on the Cross, oh! May I too, my little saint, bear if not with joy, at least in accordance with the will of God the ailments and miseries of this body of clay so that one day it may be embellished in glory. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
Prayer for the ninth day
“Little flower of Jesus! For the heroic courage with which you drained the chalice to the “feces” in the bitter trance of your agony; and by the sweet calm with which you waited for the cold call of death, may I also close my eyes to this mortal life repeating the beautiful words that you pronounced when dying: “Oh… I love him!… My God. .. I… love you!”. Amen.”
(Three Hail Marys are prayed and the grace that is desired is requested)
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Pray a novena to Saint Therese of the Child Jesus with
You can choose one of the above novenas, or you can also decide to invoke it through the miraculous novena, which is also known as the “Rose novena”. You can also join a novena to Saint Teresa of Lisieux in . During this novena, you will receive each day a small text from Saint Teresa and a phrase commented on by this wonderful saint.
The graces obtained through the intercession of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus
Pope XI was amazed at all the graces obtained by those who prayed to little Teresita. For which he made her the star of her pontificate and gave her a great place in his life and in her heart. It was he who beatified her and then canonized her on May 17, 1925. It is well known that the pope used her often, and some of her answered prayers are known from the little saint of Lisieux: the end of a conflict between the Holy See and the fascist government in 1931, and the cure of a serious illness in 1937.
But he is not the only one who has obtained thanks for the intercession of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, that wonderful servant, whom he liked to call “the greatest saint of modern times”, continues to pour graces on Earth. Rpray to Saint Therese of Lisieux it inevitably bears fruit, and the testimonials to this keep coming in every day.