Novena
St. Thomas Aquinas
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DAY 1: St. Thomas, Called by God
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me" (Mt. 10:37).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 2: St. Thomas, Lover of Purity
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness” (1 Thess. 4:7).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 3: Example of Humility
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Mt. 23:12).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 4: St. Thomas, at the Service of Truth
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ” (Ef. 4:15).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 5: St. Thomas, Aflame with Love for the Blessed Sacrament
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn. 6:53).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 6: St. Thomas, Brimming with Charity
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right” (1 Cor. 13:4-6).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 7: St. Thomas, Defender of the Church
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “...the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
DAY 8: St. Thomas, Master of Prayer
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving” (Col. 4:2).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Ame
DAY 9: St. Thomas, Patron of Students
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: “...in every way you were enriched in [Christ Jesus] with all speech and all knowledge” (1 Cor. 1:5).
NOVENA PRAYER: Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Your wisdom has appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and has disposed the different portions of the universe in such marvelous array, You Who are called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Your radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
You Who makes eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Your benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, You who are true God and Man and lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory be…
Blessed Thomas, pray for us; that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.