Oct Novenas and Prayers

Hello Novena pray-ers of the St Faustina Shrine/Society to  the month of Oct 2025.
We  always have a lot to be thankful for and a lot of praying this month. Including  praying for all the prayers and souls in our Divine Mercy Prayer Journal and you  and your own special intentions. Thank you for praying with us.
 
The  Theme for this month is "Our Lady of the Rosary"
 
1.  Wednesday Oct 1 or when you receive this email   St Therese of the Child  Jesus- "The Little Flower" Feast Day
Let  us pray a Chaplet of The Divine Mercy and The Holy Rosary with the meditations  below in between each decade of both. 


St  Therese of Lisieux Oct 1 Feast Day Reflection  
Chaplet  of The Divine Mercy before each decade: 
1.  “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”“If  I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me  to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take  good care not to forestall the future.”
2.  “It is there for each and every one of us.”  -   “May you be content knowing you  are a child of God. “A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a  despondent soul.”
3.  “Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to  sing, dance, praise and love. “And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge.  Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me  leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be  judged.”
4.  “Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.”  - “May today there  be peace within.“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly  for you - for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart… don’t  listen to the  demon, laugh at him, & go without fear to receive the Jesus  of peace & love…”
5.“May  you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. “Each prayer  is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing  which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very  simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He  always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a  simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which  expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.”


St  Therese of Lisieux Oct 1 Feast Day Reflection Holy Rosary to The Mother of  Mercy: before each decade: 
1.  “May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.  “May you use  those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to  you. “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward  heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and  joy.”  - “Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as  nothing.” “Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God  wants us to be.”
2.  “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling  look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all  for love.” “I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one  has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every  day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of  our soul in which He loves to dwell.”
3.  “One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded  soul.” “Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than  sermons.” “My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my  invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by  experience.”  - “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a  mother.”
4.  “The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little  violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower  wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” “I can nourish myself on  nothing but truth” - “I choose them all! I want them all!”  - “I say nothing to  him I love him” “I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our  neighbors' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their  smallest virtues.” -  “When one loves, one does not calculate.”
5.  “I  understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of  the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet  or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly  flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enameled with lovely hues.  And so it is in the world of souls, Our Lord's living garden.” “The world's thy  ship and not thy home.”  -  “Trust and trust alone should lead us to  love”
“When  I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens, I will spend my  heaven by doing good on earth.” - St Therese The Little Flower
 
2.  Next is Thursday Oct 2 is the Feast of our Guardian Angels
Let  us pray: Angel of God:
Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love  commits me here,
ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to  rule and guide. Amen.


Prayer  of Thanksgiving to our Guardian Angel
O most faithful companion, whom God has appointed to  watch over me, my guide and my protector, ever at my side. What thanks can I  offer you for your love, constancy, and protection? You watch over me in sleep;  console me in sorrow; raise me when I fall; ward off danger; prepare me for  the future; withdraw me from sin; urge me to do good; and move me to do penance  and reconcile me with my God.


Thank you for your assistance and may I never forget  your presence. Please, continue to encourage me in adversity; protect me in  dangers; and assist me in temptations, lest at any time I yield to them. Offer  to the Divine Majesty all my prayers and sighs and works and obtain for me the  grace to die in the friendship of God, and so to enter into life eternal.  Amen.


 
3.  Saturday  Oct 4 is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi
Peace  Prayer of St Francis: 
Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow  love;
where  there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair,  hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.


O  divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,  to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
For  it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it  is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen. 
 
4.  Saturday Oct 5 Feast Day of St Faustina: Pray the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy  while meditating on ur Lord's Passion and make some sacrifice for the Salvation  of souls and to help repair the Body of Christ.  If possible, come to our annual  St Faustina Feast Day Mass Oct 4 or send your prayer requests. 


5. Next  Monday Oct 6 thru Oct 14 with the Oct 15 Feast of St Teresa of Avila.
Say this prayer each day. 
After St Teresa of Avila died, the thoughts that have  come to be known as “St Teresa’s Bookmark” were found written in her handwriting  in the margins of her breviary.
The prayer is perhaps familiar to us:
Let  nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things pass  away.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
They who have  God
lack nothing.
God alone is enough. St Teresa of Avila


6. Oct 7  Tuesday: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Pray a Rosary while meditating on the  Sorrowful Mysteries.
 
7.  Starting Oct 13 - 21 Novena prayer to the Feast Day of St John Paul  II Oct 22.
 
The  following is the same prayer being said during the Novena at the National Shrine  of The Divine Mercy. 
St.  John Paul II, Pray for us. O Merciful Savior, you blessed the Church and the  world with the holy life and papal ministry of St. John Paul II.
May  we, through his intercession, receive every grace and blessing that you, in your  Divine Mercy, wish to give us. Amen
 
8. Oct 13 Monday 3-4pm  "Remember Fatima Holy Hour for Reparation" I will  send the prayers soon. Send prayer requests sfshrine@msn.com
 
9.  Next Oct 18 Friday Feast of St Luke the Evangelist 
Prayers  for Sickness and Healing
Merciful  Lord, through the intercession of St Luke, visit us in our time of need and  affliction; and as you healed Jairus' daughter
and  raised her from her bed of infirmity, visit your servant, Master, and deliver  him/her from sickness and pain.
For  you alone have born the sickness and affliction of our world and with you  nothing is impossible.
For  you are all-merciful and to you we ascribe glory and adoration forever.  Amen
10.  Monday Oct 20 Feast of St Paul of the Cross 
 
O'  glorious Saint Paul of the Cross, you were chosen by God to profess to all of  humanity the bitter sufferings of His only-begotten Son, and to spread devotion  to the Passion of Jesus throughout the world.

By your preaching and holy  example Jesus converted thousands of sinners through you by bringing them to the  foot of the Cross to repent of their sins, thereby obtaining for them His  infinite forgiveness and mercy! May Jesus be blessed for His extraordinary grace  that was so often made present in your life, and for the many miracles He worked  through you for the conversion of souls!

O' blessed St Paul of the Cross,  turning towards you now I ask that from your place with Jesus and Mary in heaven  that you may look mercifully upon my poor soul and hear my prayers, and with all  of your love humbly present them to Jesus for me (mention  petitions).

Obtain for me also a great love of Jesus suffering, that by  frequent meditation on His Passion I may take up my own cross and accept with  holy resignation the sufferings that God has permitted in my life. Help me to  suffer and to sacrifice in union with Jesus for the conversion of my poor soul,  the souls of my loved ones, and for all of humanity. Help me to love Jesus and  Mary with all of my heart, and intercede for me that I may, by the grace of God,  die a holy death, and come at last to enjoy with you the blessed Presence of  Jesus and Mary in Heaven for all of eternity.

One Our Father, Hail Mary,  Glory be....

I ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord, AMEN  +
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Thank  you for praying. Let us pray for all the requests sent to us and in our Divine  Mercy Prayer Journals. Peace in Ukraine. An end to Russian aggression.  Conversion of Russia. For all the sick, dying, and poor sinners. For an end to  abortions and for all your special intentions. This will add to our huge  spiritual storehouse for souls so as to help satisfy Jesus' thirst for the  salvation of souls
 And  let us pray for love of God and Neighbor. And let us give thanks!! God is good  all the time, and all the time God is good. We praise and glorify His goodness  and mercy.
 Jesus,  I trust in You.
 You  are always in my prayers.
 Jay Hastings www.divinemercyshrine.site
 sfshrine@msn.com  St Faustina Shrine/Society
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