Novena to St. Vitus
(One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers)

PREPARATORY PRAYER

Almighty and eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshipping Your Divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before You and invoke with filial trust Your supreme generosity and mercy. Illuminate the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Your Heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Your Divine Love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the Saint in whose honor I make this novena, and following their example imitate, as they did, the life of Your Divine Son.

Moreover, I beseech You to graciously grant me, through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper, the petition which through them I humbly place before You, devoutly saying, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."

Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it is to Your greater glory and the salvation of my soul. Amen.
PRAYER IN HONOR OF ST. VITUS

Grant us, O God, through the intercession of St. Vitus, a true appreciation of the value of our soul and its redemption by the Precious Blood of Your Son Jesus Christ, so that, for the sake of the salvation of our soul, we will bear all trials with fortitude. Give this Your youthful servant and heroic martyr as a guide and protector to Catholic youths, that following his example they may after a victorious combat receive the crown of justice in Heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

INVOCATION OF ST. VITUS

St. Vitus, glorious martyr of Christ, in your youth you were exposed to violent and dangerous temptations, but in the fear of God and for the Love of Jesus you victoriously overcame them. O amiable holy youth, I implore you, by the Love of Jesus, to assist me with your powerful intercession to overcome the temptations to evil, to avoid every occasion of sin, and preserve spotless the robe of innocence and sanctifying grace. I pray that I will bring it unstained to the judgment-seat of Jesus Christ, that I may forever enjoy the beatific vision of God, which is promised to the pure of heart. Amen.

PRAYER

My Lord and my God! I offer up to You my petition in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Your Son, together with the merits of His Immaculate and Blessed Mother, Mary ever Virgin, and of all the Saints, particularly with those of the Holy Helper, St. Vitus, in whose honor I make this novena. Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Your Grace and Your Love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen.