Novena Prayer to the Blessed Mother

O Holy Mary, My Mother,
into your blessed trust and special keeping,
into the heart of your tender mercy,
this day and every day of my life
and at the hour of my death,
I commend my soul and body;
to you I entrust all my hopes and consolations,
all my trials and miseries,
my life and the end of my life,
that through your most holy intercession and your merits,
all my actions may be ordered and disposed
to your will and that of your divine Son.
Amen

Prayer to Saint Jude Thaddeus

0 glorious Apostle, Saint Jude Thaddeus,
true relative of Jesus and Mary,
I salute you through the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Through this Heart, I praise and thank God
for the graces He has bestowed upon you.
Humbly prostrate before you,
I implore you through this Heart
to look down upon me with compassion.
Oh, despise not my poor prayers;
let not my trust be confounded!
To you God has granted
the privilege of aiding mankind
in the most desperate cases.
Oh, come to my aid,
that I may praise the mercies of God!
All my life, I will be grateful to you
and will be your faithful client
until I can thank you in Heaven. Amen.

Blessed Apostle with confidence we invoke you!
(Three Times)

Saint Jude, Help of the Hopeless, aid me in my distress!
(Three Times)

Pray for us, that before death,
we may expiate all our sins
by sincere repentance and
the worthy reception of the holy sacrament.
Pray for us that we may appease the Divine Justice
and obtain a favorable judgment.
Pray for us, that we may be admitted
into the company of the blessed
to rejoice in the presence of our God forever.

LET US PRAY
O glorious Apostle, martyr and relative of Jesus,
Saint Jude Thaddeus,
who did spread the true Faith
among the most barbarous and distant nations;
who did win to the obedience of Jesus Christ
many tribes and peoples,
by the power of His holy word, grant I beseech you,
that from this day I may renounce every sinful habit,
that I may be preserved from all evil thoughts,
that I may always obtain your assistance,
particularly in every danger and difficulty
and that I may safely reach
the heavenly country with you,
to adore the Most Holy Trinity
- the Father, Son and Holy Spirit -
forever and ever.
Amen.

Prayer in Trials

(To be said in great affliction, for desperate cases
or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help.)

Most holy Apostle Saint Jude,
faithful servant and friend of Jesus,
the name of the traitor
who delivered the beloved Master
into the hands of His enemies,
has caused you to be forgotten by many
but the Church honors and invokes you universally
as the patron of hopeless cases,
of things despaired of.
Pray for me who am so miserable;
make use I implore you,
of this particular privilege accorded to you,
to bring visible and speedy help,
where help is almost despaired of.
Come to my assistance in this great need
that I may receive
the consolations and succor of Heaven
in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings,
particularly

(here make your request)

and that I may bless God with you
and all the elect forever.

I PROMISE you, 0 blessed Saint Jude,
to be ever mindful of this great favor
and I will never cease to honor you
as my special and powerful patron
and to do all in my power
to encourage devotion to you.
Amen.

May the most just, most high
and most adorable Will of God
be in all things done, praised and magnified,
forever and ever.
Amen.