Novena In Honor of St. John Marie Vianney
Jul. 27th to Aug. 4th
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9
Day 1
Ardent Faith
Saint John Marie Baptist Vianney you
were born of a deeply religious mother;
from her you received the Holy Faith;
you learned to love God and to pray.
At a young age,
you were seen kneeling in the
front of the statue of Mary.
Your soul was supernaturally carried
towards the things on High.
Despite the high cost,
you answered your vocation!
Against many obstacles and contradictions,
you had to fight and suffer to become
the perfect priest which you were.
But your deep spirit of faith supported
you in all these battles.
O Great Saint you know the
desire of my soul;
I would like to serve God better;
from Him I have received so many good things.
For this,
obtain for me more courage and especially the depth
of faith.
Many of my thoughts,
words, and actions are useless for my
sanctification and for my salvation,
because this supernatural spirit
does not stir up my life.
Help me to be better in the future.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be
Day 2
Complete Trust in God
Saint John Marie Baptist Vianney,
what confidence the people
had in your prayers!
You could not leave your old rectory or your
humble church without being surrounded by
imploring souls,
who appealed to you as they would have appealed to
Jesus Himself during His earthly life.
And you,
O good Saint,
gave them hope by your words,
which were full of love for God.
You, who had always counted entirely on the
heart of God,
obtain for me a deep filial trust in
His Providence.
As the hope of divine goods fills my heart,
give me courage and help me to
always obey the Commandments of God.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 3
True Love of Neighbor
Saint John Marie Baptist Vianney because of your
love of God you showed great charity towards
your neighbor.
You could not preach on the Love of God without
burning tears of love.
During your last years,
it seemed as though you could not talk about any
thing else or live for anything else.
Thus you sacrificed yourself to
your neighbor by consoling,
absolving and sanctifying them to the
limits of your strength.
Your charity inspires me to greater love of God,
a love which is shown more
by acts then by words.
Help me to love my neighbor generously
as Christ loves them.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 4
Horror of Sin
Saint John Mary Baptist Vianney,
you were so adamant against sin,
yet so sympathetic and so ready to welcome the sinner.
I come to you today as if you were still alive,
as if I were kneeling at your feet and
you could hear me.
Bend towards me,
listen to the repentant confidence for
the weaknesses and miserable deeds of mine.
Priest of the Lord,
inexhaustible Confessor,
obtain for me the horror for sin.
You wanted us First to avoid the
occasion of sin.
I want to take your advice and
make the resolution to break bad habits and to
avoid the dangerous occasions of sin.
Help me today to examine my conscience.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for…
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 5
Confessor of Souls
O Holy Priest of Ars,
you knew how important was a good confession
for the Christian life.
It was to procure the happy fruits of millions of souls
that you agreed to be in
an uncomfortable confessional,
which was like a prison,
up to 15 to 16 hours on certain days.
I will try to develop the habit
of frequent confession,
to prepare properly each time and
to have always regret for my sins,
so that the grace of final
perseverance but also the sanctification of my
soul will be assured.
Ask this grace for me.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be
Day 6
Real Presence
O Holy Priest of Ars,
whose only comfort in this world was the real
presence of Jesus in the tabernacle,
was it not your great joy to distribute the
Eucharist to the pilgrims who visited you?
You refused Communion to the souls
who refused to reform but to souls of goodwill
you opened wide the doors of the Eucharistic Feast.
You,
who each day at Holy Mass received
Holy Communion with great loves,
give me some of your fervor.
With freedom from mortal sin,
obtain for me a sincere desire to
profit from receiving Holy Communion.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for…
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 7
Dispeller of Satan
O Holy Priest of Ars,
the infamous attacks of the devil which you had
to suffer and the trials which disheartened you
by fatigue would not make you give up the
sublime task of converting souls.
The devil came to you for many years to disturb
your short rest but you won because of
mortification and prayers.
Powerful protector,
you know the temptor’s desire to harm my
baptized and believing soul.
He would have me sin,
by rejecting the Holy Sacraments and
the life of virtue.
But good Saint of Ars dispel from me
the traces of the enemy.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 8
Exquisite Purity
O Holy Priest of Ars,
a witness of your life made this magnificent
praise of you:
”We would have taken him for an
angel in a mortal
body.”
You so edified others:
the modesty and the exquisite purity radiated
from your body.
With such charm and with
such enthusiasm you preached to others about
these beautiful virtues which you said
resembled the perfume of a vineyard in bloom.
Please I beg you to join your entreaties to those
of Mary Immaculate and Saint Philomena in
order that I guard always,
as God asks me,
the purity of my heart.
You, who have directed so many souls towards
the heights of virtue,
defend me in temptations and obtain
for me the strength to conquer them.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
Day 9
Desire for Heaven
O Holy Priest of Ars,
your precious remains are contained in a
magnificent reliquary,
the donation from the priests of France.
But this earthly glory is only a very pale
image of the unspeakable glory which
you are enjoying with God.
During the time you were on earth,
you used to repeat in your dejected hours,
”one will rest in the other life.”
It is done,
you are in eternal peace,
and eternal happiness.
I desire to follow you one day.
Until then,
I hear you saying to me:
“You should work and fight as long as you are
in the world.”
Teach me then to work for the
salvation of my soul,
to spread the good news and good example
and to do good towards those around me in
order that I will receive the happiness of the
Elect with you.
Holy Priest of Ars,
I have confidence in your intercession.
Pray for me during this novena especially for …
(mention silently your special intentions)
Our Father,
Hail Mary,
Glory Be.
O St John Vianney,
Patron of Priests,
pray for us and for all priests!