My Novena Page

Bishop Alfredo Verzosa
Feast Day: June 27

On September 30, 2010, I took the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Exam (FPGEE) in the US. I wasn’t totally confident that I would pass, so I asked for the help of Bishop Alfredo Verzosa. About 2 weeks before the exam, I prayed a novena to him.

On November 11, 2010, exactly 6 weeks after the exam, the results came out. I successfully passed it, and I didn’t only get a score of 100, but 110. (Passing score is 75 and perfect score is 150).

Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of the novena.

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Novena to St. Valentine
Feast Day: February 14

Almighty God, grant we beseech You, that we who celebrate the glorious martyrdom of St. Valentine, Your servant, may by his intercession be filled with the love of God and neighbor, and be delivered from all the evils that threaten us. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore You, I love You, and with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Your will. Grant, good Jesus, that I make live in You and for You. Protect me in the midst of danger; comfort me in my afflictions; give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death.

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Merciful Jesus, I consecrate myself today and always to Your Most Sacred Heart.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may ever love You more and more.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Your Heart.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, please help me!
In every need let me come to You with humble trust , saying: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
In all my doubts, perplexities and temptations: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
In hours of loneliness, weariness and trials: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
In the failure of my plans and hopes, in disappointments, troubles and sorrows: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
When others fail me and Your grace alone can assist me: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
When I throw myself on Your tender love as a Father and Savior: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
When my heart is cast down by failure, at seeing no good come from my efforts: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
When I feel impatient and my cross irritates me: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
When I am ill and my head and hands cannot work, and I am lonely: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me!
Always, always, in spite of weakness, falls, and shortcomings of every kind: Sacred Heart of Jesus, help me and never forsake me.

Novena of Confidence to the Sacred Heart
O Lord, Jesus Christ,
To Your Most Sacred Heart
I confide this intention…
(Here mention your request)
Only look upon me
Then do what Your Heart inspires…
Let Your Sacred Heart decide…
I count on It… I trust in It…
I throw myself on Its mercy…
Lord Jesus! You will not fail me.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Your love for me.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your Kingdom Come.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I have asked for many favors, but I earnestly implore this one. Take it, place it in Your Sacred Heart. When the Eternal Father sees it covered with Your Precious Blood, He will not refuse it. It will be no longer my prayer but Yours, O Jesus. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You. Let me never be confounded. Amen.

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Novena to St. Joseph
Feast Day: March 19

Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.

Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.

Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:

(Mention your request).

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.

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Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.

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Novena to the Thirteen Blessed Souls
(Jesus and the 12 Apostles)

Note: The repeat of the first line is not a mistake. It is supposed to be read twice.

Oh my thirteen Blessed souls, so wise and understanding, I ask you for the love of God that my request be answered. Oh my thirteen Blessed souls, so wise and understanding, I ask you for the Love of God that my request be answered.

Of you I ask for the sake of the blood that Jesus shed that my request be answered. My Lord Jesus Christ, that your protection wrap me with Your arms. Guard me with Your eyes.

O God of kindness, You have been my defender in life and death. I ask that You free me from the difficulties that torment me. My thirteen blessed souls, so wise and understanding, having received the grace I seek from You (state request), I will be devoted to You.

Say 13 Our Father’s and 13 Hail Mary’s for 13 consecutive days.
Publish this prayer (share it with a friend) and give a Mass of Thanksgiving.

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Novena of the Miraculous Medal
Feast Day: November 27

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we, your loving and trustful children, implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray.

(Here form your petition)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son Who hates iniquity. Obtain for us then a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought, word and deed may tend to His greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin and, at length, attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men.

Amen.