NOVENA PRAYER TO ST. PEREGRINE, THE CANCER SAINT
O, glorious wonder worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, forsaking all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world, to dedicate yourself to God in the order of his most holy Mother. You labored manfully for the salvation of souls, meriting the title of "Apostle of Emilia." In union with Jesus Crucified, you endured the most painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously by HIm with a touch of his divine hand from an incurable wound in your leg. Obtain for us, we pray, the grace to answer every call for God. Enkindle in our hearts a consuming zeal for the salvation of souls. Deliver us from the infirmities that so often afflict our wretched bodies. And obtain for us the grace of perfect resignation to the sufferings which it shall please Him to send us. So may we, imitating your virtues and tenderly loving our crucified Lord and his sorrowful Mother, be enabled to merit glory everlasting in paradise. Amen
Say one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.
