Prevention & ResourcesAs we take steps to protect ourselves and others physically from the spread of COVID-19, let us also remember to turn to God for protection and healing. Below are some prayers that you can include in your daily routine and we invite you to join us in praying for peace, protection, and healing.
We have put together two Novenas that have been prayed throughout our state over the last few months:
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Lord Jesus, you came into the world to heal our infirmities and to endure our sufferings. You went about healing all and bringing comfort to those in pain and need. We come before you now in this time of illness asking that you may be the source of our strength in body, courage in spirit and patience in pain. May we join ourselves more closely to you on the cross and in your suffering that through them we may draw our patience and hope. Assist us and restore us to health so that united more closely to your family, the Church, we may give praise and honor to your name.
Amen.
St. Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
Father Don Dolindo Ruotolo ✝ 1882-1970
Day 1
Why do you confuse yourselves by worrying?
Leave the care of your affairs to me
and everything will be peaceful.
I say to you in truth that every act of true,
blind, complete surrender to me
produces the effect that you desire
and resolves all difficult situations.(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 2
Surrender to me does not mean to fret,
to be upset, or to lose hope,
nor does it mean offering to me a worried prayer
asking me to follow you
and change your worry into prayer.
It is against this surrender,
deeply against it, to worry,
to be nervous
and to desire to think about the consequences of anything.
It is like the confusion that children feel
when they ask their mother to see to their needs,
and then try to take care of those needs for themselves
so that their childlike efforts get in their mother’s way.
Surrender means to placidly close the eyes of the soul,
to turn away from thoughts of tribulation
and to put yourself in my care, so that only I act.
Saying You take care of it.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 3
How many things I do when the soul,
in so much spiritual and material need turns to me,
looks at me and says to me;
“You take care of it,”
then close its eyes and rests.
In pain you pray for me to act,
but that I act in the way you want.
You do not turn to me, instead,
you want me to adapt to your ideas.
You are not sick people who ask the doctor to cure you,
but rather sick people who tell the doctor how to.
So do not act this way,
but pray as I taught you in the Our Father:
“Hallowed be thy Name”,
that is, be glorified in my need.
“Thy kingdom come”,
that is, let all that is in us
and in the world be in accord with your kingdom.
“Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven”,
that is, in our need,
decide as you see fit for our temporal and eternal life.
If you say to me truly:
“Thy will be done”
which is the same as saying:
“You take care of it”
I will intervene with all my omnipotence,
and I will resolve the most difficult situations.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 4
You see evil growing instead of weakening?
Do not worry,
Close your eyes and say to me with faith:
“Thy will be done, You take care of it.”
I say to you that I will take care of it,
and that I will intervene as does a doctor
and I will accomplish miracles when they are needed.
Do you see that the sick person is getting worse?
Do not be upset,
but close your eyes and say
“You take care of it.”
I say to you that I will take care of it,
and that there is no medicine
more powerful than my loving intervention.
By my love, I promise this to you.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 5
And when I must lead you on a path different from the one you see,
I will prepare you;
I will carry you in my arms;
I will let you find yourself,
like children who have fallen asleep in their mother’s arms,
on the other bank of the river.
What troubles you and hurts you immensely are your reason,
your thoughts and worry,
and your desire at all costs to deal with what afflicts you.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 6
You are sleepless;
you want to judge everything,
direct everything and see to everything
and you surrender to human strength,
or worse – to men themselves,
trusting in their intervention,
– this is what hinders my words and my views.
Oh how much I wish from you this surrender,
to help you and how I suffer when I see you so agitated!
Satan tries to do exactly this:
to agitate you and to remove you from my protection
and to throw you into the jaws of human initiative.
So, trust only in me,
rest in me,
surrender to me in everything.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 7
I perform miracles in proportion to your full surrender to me
and to your not thinking of yourselves.
I sow treasure troves of graces
when you are in the deepest poverty.
No person of reason, no thinker,
has ever performed miracles,
not even among the saints.
He does divine works whosoever surrenders to God.
So don’t think about it any more,
because your mind is acute
and for you it is very hard to see evil
and to trust in me
and to not think of yourself.
Do this for all your needs,
do this all of you
and you will see great continual silent miracles.
I will take care of things,
I promise this to you.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 8
Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away
on the flowing current of my grace;
close your eyes and do not think of the present,
turning your thoughts away from the future
just as you would from temptation.
Repose in me, believing in my goodness,
and I promise you by my love that if you say
“You take care of it,” I will take care of it all;
I will console you,
liberate you and guide you.
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Day 9
Pray always in readiness to surrender,
and you will receive from it great peace and great rewards,
even when I confer on you the grace of immolation,
of repentance and of love.
Then what does suffering matter?
It seems impossible to you?
Close your eyes and say with all your soul,
“Jesus, you take care of it.”
Do not be afraid, I will take care of things
and you will bless my name by humbling yourself.
A thousand prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender,
remember this well.
There is no novena more effective than this:
(Repeat the following prayer 10 times.)
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!
Mother, I am yours now and forever.
Through you and with you
I always want to belong completely to Jesus.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori
My Jesus,
I believe that You
are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment
receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
Our Lady of Monte Berico, Novena – Intercessor and protector in moments of plague
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of God and my Mother Mary, I thank you that you have deigned to appear on Monte Berico and I thank you for all the graces you grant here to those who turn to you. Nobody ever prayed to you in vain. I, too, resort to you and beg you for the Passion and Death of Jesus and for your pains: welcome me, o’ merciful Mother, under your mantle, which is a maternal mantle; grant me the particular grace that I ask of You [Protection and healing from the Coronavirus for all members of our Catholic schools and Churches in the Archdiocese of Denver, and all citizens of our city, state, country, and world] and protect me from all evil and especially from sin which is the greatest evil.
Oh make, oh Mary, my Mother, that I always enjoy your loving protection in life and even more in death and then come to see you in heaven and to thank and bless you forever. Amen.
Madonna of Monte Berico, pray for us.
O sweet Virgin, pious mother of love,
Like this Ave rising from the heart.
Ave, ave, ave, Maria
Ave, ave, ave, Maria
O Virgin, shine as a star in the sky,
Motherly defend your faithful children.
Ave, ave, ave Maria
Ave, ave, ave, Maria
9Days: March 16th-March24 – Concludes with the Solemnity of the Annunctiation, March 25.
- For an end to the coronavirus.
- For all those suffering throughout the world from the coronavirus: That they may know Jesus is with them in their suffering and that they may be healed.
- For all nurses, doctors and health care workers: We place them in the hands of the Father, that they may be protected and blessed in their care for the sick.
- For Catholics who suffer the Cross in not being able to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist out of charity for their neighbor: That they may join their suffering to Christ and pray for the conversion of the world and an end to the coronavirus.
- For those Catholics whose hearts have become indifferent to the Eucharist: That the Lord will stir into flame their hearts with a deep desire and love for the Eucharist as the place of encounter with Jesus and his unconditional love for them.
- For priests throughout the world who anoint the sick and care for the dying: That they may be protected by the intercession of Our Lady of Berico.
- That the Lord will pour forth his Holy Spirit upon scientists, granting them knowledge and wisdom as they search for a vaccine and cure for coronavirus.
- That the Lord will guide with his Holy Spirit, civil and church leaders, and the decisions that they must make concerning the coronavirus and the common good.
- That through the intercession of Our Lady of Berico and St. Joseph, the plague of coronavirus may come to an end.
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