Saint Vincent Ferrer, Aragonese friar and renowned preacher who helped put an end to the Great Western Schism. In 1367 he entered the Dominican order in Valencia, where he was appointed professor of theology. In 1394, Antipope Benedict XIII appointed him confessor and theologian at his Avignon court, but five years later Vincent resigned from the missions.
Traveling through Burgundy, southern France, Switzerland, northern Italy, and Spain, he drew crowds from around the world and was remarkably successful in winning Jewish converts. He was known for his poverty and religious austerity, including perpetual fasting, and he was believed to have the gift of miracles.
In an effort to end the schism, he had twice tried to persuade Benedict to renounce his papal claim. In 1412 he was one of the nine judges who chose Ferdinand I King of Aragon, and he persuaded Ferdinand to stop supporting Benedict, thus helping to end the schism.
He lived to see the election of Pope Martin V in November 1417, officially ending the Great Western Schism. The last two years of his life were spent preaching in the north of France.
Prayer to San Vicente Ferrer, for urgent needs
My glorious father Saint Vincent, my most loving benefactor, convinced of the glory and power that you enjoy before God, and that you exercise on behalf of all your true devotees, and also encouraged with great confidence in your powerful patronage:
I kneel before your holy image, like a son before his loving father, like a poor vassal before his generous king, like an afflicted patient before his compassionate doctor. Look at me here kneeling at your blessed feet, full of pain and sadness, sickness and misery, full of all kinds of needs of both soul and body. I turn to you with all my faith and trust so that you deign to heal me, taking away my anxieties and granting me the favors I ask of you.
Help me, then, my Holy, powerful and gracious; heal me from the diseases that afflict me; obtain from God the grace to convert wholeheartedly to Him and to serve Him until death; comfort me and encourage me in all my works with your holy assistance; deliver me from all the dangers that surround me everywhere, and always keep me in the health of soul and body that I need so that, in this way, I can fulfill the divine commandments and the obligations of my own state, and can also continue honoring you with fervent devotion and with all my tenderest gratitude for your kindness and goodness, being like a true father to me.
Listen to me, my Saint, accepting my cries and granting me the favors that I ask of you and that I hope for, also grant me the great happiness of imitating you in your precious virtues, especially in love for Jesus Christ, our Divine Redeemer, in charity towards others, in the mortification of my senses, in the tender and constant devotion to our much loved Mother, the Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary, and, finally, in the continuous meditation of my death and the tremendous day of judgment. So be it. Amen
Prayer to San Vicente Ferrer, to ask for health
Oh my protector, Saint Vincent Ferrer, as the eternal God has deposited in you an inexhaustible treasurer of grace and supernatural virtues, listen to my sincere request and help me with your intercession, more powerful now than when you were on earth.
Therefore, with blind trust I place myself at your feet, to ask for all those who concern me, but more particularly for (the special favor). Oh glorious saint, let my trust in you not be deceived. He presents to me, to the Divine Majesty, your pleading prayers and watches over my soul. If sadness and trials increase, so will my joy increase, and may my patience grow with each day, so that I can save my soul. Amen.
Novena Prayer to Saint Vincent Ferrer
This novena to San Vicente Ferrer to perform it for 9 consecutive days, you can ask for the favor you need, with great faith you will achieve good results.
Let us pray to Saint Vincent Ferrer
Oh glorious Apostle and miracle worker, Saint Vicente Ferrer, new angel of the Apocalypse and our protector, receive our humble prayers and obtain for us a copious rain of divine favors.
For that love with which your heart was inflamed, obtain for us from the Father of mercies the forgiveness of all our sins, confirmation in faith, and perseverance in good works; so that living as good and fervent Christians we can become worthy of your powerful patronage.
Extend your patronage also to our bodies, and free us from our diseases. Protect our lands from the violence of storms and hail, and keep misfortune away from us. Thus, blessed by you in the goods of soul and body, we will always be devoted to you, and one day we will see you in heaven, there with you to praise God forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer of Saint Vincent Ferrer to be without sin at the time of death
Lord Jesus Christ, who wants no man to perish, and to whom one never pleads without the hope of mercy, because You said with your holy and blessed lips: “All that you ask in my name will be done for you”; I ask you, O Lord, for the love of your holy name, that you grant me at the hour of my death full conscience and power of speech, sincere contrition for my sins, true faith, firm hope and perfect charity, so that I can tell you with clean heart: In your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit: You have redeemed me, oh God of truth, you are blessed forever and ever. Amen.
7.- Petitions to San Vicente Ferrer
(Can be said every Friday.)
First Prayer: Most faithful Saint Vincent, you who spread the faith of Jesus Christ with so much zeal, grant me, I beg you, that uniting my works to my faith, I may have, like you, a living faith; that until the last moment of my life, I wish to live and die in the faith that you had, and that, like you, I can say to my Lord: “I believe, Lord, I believe.”
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Second Prayer: Oh, very kind Saint Vincent, grant me, following your example, to unite my hope with my faith, relying solely on the generosity of the Lord. And although I possess myself unworthy, because of the innumerable sins that I have committed, I nourish in the bottom of my heart the firm hope of being able to bless and exalt the mercies of my God for all eternity.
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Third Prayer: Oh very good and kind Saint Vincent, you who are all on fire with charity, obtain for me the grace to love God above all things, so that burning with a holy love, I never offend my God for interest or for no worldly pleasure; but love him forever and implore his Divine Love.
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Fourth Prayer: Oh very humble Saint Vincent, you who have the deepest feelings of humility, get me from our Lord, I beg you for this virtue, so that I can fix my thoughts forever on my misery, my imperfections and my nothingness. May I never be assailed by pride, and to keep myself humble and small in my own estimation, always keep in mind this great truth: “God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.”
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Fifth Prayer: Most pure Saint Vincent, who until death preserved the beautiful lily of your virginity without stain, answer that I can keep my mind pure in the eyes of God, that I have horror at every impure thought, and that, through your intercession, God grant me my prayer. “He Creates a clean heart in me, O God, and renews a right spirit in my bowels.”
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Sixth Prayer: O great Saint Vincent, you who were a martyr for penance, obtain for me from God the spirit of compunction and a true sorrow for my sins, so that I can weep over them, and detest them with a truly contrite heart, and so that I may receive God’s forgiveness from them, which I humbly implore. “A repentant and humble heart, O God, you will not despise.”
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Seventh Prayer: O Saint Vincent, you who have performed such marvelous miracles, will never reject the humble pleas of those who dedicate themselves to your cult. I beg you to be my Protector in life and death. In life to help me in my needs; in death to help my soul, so that it reaches eternal salvation, and so that, having glorified God through you on earth, I can glorify Him with you in heaven, forever and ever. Amen.
Pray:
- Our father
- Ave Maria
- Glory to the Father
Litany of Saint Vincent Ferrer
- Holy Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.
- Saint Dominic, our august Father, pray for us.
- Saint Vincent Ferrer, pray for us.
- Saint Vincent, glory of Valencia,
- Saint Vincent, lily of purity,
- Saint Vincent, miracle of mercy from childhood,
- Saint Vincent, interpreter of the Holy Trinity,
- Saint Vincent, burning light of charity,
- Saint Vincent, mirror of penance,
- Saint Vincent, trumpet of eternal salvation,
- Saint Vincent, flower of heavenly wisdom,
- Saint Vincent, preacher of the holy Gospel,
- Saint Vincent, powerful in word and deed,
- Saint Vincent, prophet of Christ who is to come,
- Saint Vincent, very devoted to the Mother of God,
- Saint Vincent, always very pious,
- Saint Vincent, fervent reconciler of souls,
- Saint Vincent, generous with the poor,
- Saint Vincent, the most learned teacher,
- Saint Vincent, most holy preacher,
- Saint Vincent, the most illustrious of miracles,
- Saint Vincent, loved by Jesus Christ,
- Saint Vincent, the most addicted to prayer,
- Saint Vincent, burning for the salvation of souls,
- Saint Vincent, true model of humility,
- Saint Vincent, confessor full of knowledge,
- Saint Vincent, the most powerful resurrecter of the dead,
- Saint Vincent, health of the sick,
- Saint Vincent, support of the Holy Faith,
- Saint Vincent, teacher of penitents,
- Saint Vincent, refuge of the afflicted,
- Saint Vincent, the splendor of the elect,
- Saint Vincent, conqueror of demons,
- Saint Vincent, companion of angels,
- Saint Vincent, treasure of virtues,
- Saint Vincent, the sight of the blind,
- Saint Vincent, hearing the deaf,
- Saint Vincent, the fool’s speech,
- Saint Vincent, comfort of the devastated,
- Saint Vincent, who wears in heaven the double crown of virginity and doctorate,
- Saint Vincent, immortal glory of the Order of Preachers,
- Saint Vincent, powerful protector of those who seek your help,
- Saint Vincent, protector of all those who invoke you, pray for us.
Let us pray to San Vicente Ferrer, for urgent cases and to get out of misery
O God, who through the salutary preaching of Blessed Vincent, your confessor, mercifully called the multitude of people to the ardor of your love and the fear of the terrible judgment, grant us, through his merits and intercession, that we be sure of that terrible judgment. , and let us enjoy your promises in eternal bliss. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.