ST.

PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,

NINE-DAY NOVENA
Prayer to
St. Pio of Pietrelcina

❖ Most blessed and beloved Saint Pio, you were chosen to glorify
the crucified Jesus Christ through the visible wounds of the
Cross that you bore for 50 years. And like our Lord Jesus, you
demonstrated your great love by sharing the many gifts
bestowed upon you – especially the gift of intercession.
❖ Because of your great friendship with the Lord, He responds to
your requests and blesses those who you bless. I now add my
prayer to the many prayers offered to you every day by those
who seek your help to obtain healings and consolations,
earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace for body, mind and
soul.
❖ In your loving kindness, please bless my loved ones and me,
and intercede for these special requests… (Mention your
intentions)
❖ In your great love, Saint Pio, please continue to pray with us
and for us.

❖ Amen.
Act of Entrustment to
St. Pio

❖ O glorious St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the saint of this new

millennium, you are our friend, consoler of our soul and help
of us sinners. You understand us so well for you know what it
means to suffer.
❖ To you we entrust our well-being and that of our loved ones;
❖ To you we entrust our spirit that we may be able to endure the
pains we carry in our heart;
❖ To you we entrust the request of presenting our souls to the
Virgin of Grace to obtain eternal salvation from the Lord;
❖ To you we entrust our plea of intercession to obtain from the
Divine Goodness the grace… (Mention your intention) which
we so ardently desire.
❖ Welcome us under your protection, defend us from the snares
of evil and above all intercede for us before the Most High so
that through the forgiveness of sins we may persevere in doing
good. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Glory be to the Father… (three times)

Prayer for the Intercession
of St. Pio
of Pietrelcina

Lord Jesus, Crucified and Resurrected,

we thank you for having given us,
St. Pio of Pietrelcina,
as one who shared in Your pain and passion,
and was the instrument of bestowing God’s mercy.
We ask you, in imitation
of the <<Holy Friar of Mount Gargano>>,
to make our life
<<an intimate and loving participation in Your sacrifice>>,
by a kindly and generous dedication
to love all of God’s children.
May it be a testimony of truth and love which,
as Your disciples,
we must announce all of God’s people.
We offer to You, O Lord,
our gratitude for the sanctity of Padre Pio
who is a sign of great hope
in this tormented world.
May your Holy Servant,
blessed with the stigmata,
intercede for us before the throne of God.

Amen.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA
Introductory prayer to be
recited at the beginning of
each daily prayer

Come to me as Father and friend, Jesus, and do not leave me

alone.
Lord, abide with me!
I am just a pilgrim wandering in a world enveloped by
darkness; bestow on me your light and your grace.
Lord, abide with me!
In this precious moment, embrace me; let this union between
us last forever.
Lord, abide with me.
Accompany me along life’s journey; I need your presence.
Without you I become faint and fall.
Lord, abide with me.
Evening is coming and I am racing like a river towards the
deep sea of death. Lord, abide with me.
Be my strength in sorrow and in happiness, while I live and
until I die within your embrace. Lord, abide with me!
 ST. PADRE PIO of
Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

First Day

❖O glorious and holy Padre Pio, we are at your feet, turn

your gaze to us. We are devoted to you; we admire
your life and follow your teachings, and have
experienced the power of your intercession. While you
lived in this world, multitudes of people arrived every
day in San Giovanni Rotondo to recognize and behold
your credence, to receive pardon through your word,
to hear your teachings and to invoke your intercession.
With this same love and conscious of the glorious
power of your prayers before God, we are prostrate at
your feet. Pray for us. We entrust ourselves to you,
certain that you will obtain for us from God the graces
of which we are in need. We ask this in the name of
Christ our Lord. Amen.
❖Intentions:
❖1. That the Lord grants to the world and to the Church
responsible, faithful leadership. Let us pray.
❖2. That every family be healthy in body and spirit.
Let us pray.
 ST. PADRE PIO of
Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Second Day
❖ O glorious Padre Pio, from infancy you offered yourself to God
as an instrument of reparation. With your impoverished family
you began to grow in age, wisdom and goodness. Your father,
dreaming of a better tomorrow, left for Argentina and you, who
said, “My father went far away from his wife and children in order
to provide all of us with something to eat,” recognized the
courage of this gesture. Your mother undertook the task of
providing for the family by working in the fields so that nothing
would be lacking. We have your testimony that you left us to
serve as a lesson: “From early childhood we worked with
commitment… We worked for our daily bread… Our affection
devolved on our parents… With them we struggled in the great
battle of life…” May the Lord grant to us sons and daughters:
dedication to good works, devoutness, and a close relationship
with our families. This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖1. So that we be a family, for the children, school and church.
Let us pray.
❖2. So that the children grow to love and respect their parents.
Let us pray
❖3. So that the family loves and honors God, for the family that
prays together remains united. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Third Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, you flourished in a profoundly religious

family. One day your father called you close to himself and
asked a momentous question: “My son, would it not appeal to
you a become a friar or a priest?”
❖ From reading interviews of children on the subject of their
future, we see that they do not even consider the possibility of
a consecrated life. When asked what they want to be when
grown up, they want to become members of the armed forces,
doctors, fashion designers or teachers, and life as a Religious in
not in their plans. Why? Still the greatest honor for a family is
to have a son that God has chosen to be a Religious or a priest.
We ask you to safeguard the Church so that numerous
vocations are born and that there will be many holy Religious.
We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that all the services that we lend are expressions of
faith in the Gospel. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we know to remain near our poor and needy
brothers. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that our lives are an expression of Evangelical service
in words and deed. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Fourth Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, in the friary you began a new life, the results of
which you already knew, as you yourself said: “I was only 16 years
old but I knew what I must become to take on the life of a
Religious… I had to dedicate myself in order to know even better
the call of my voluntary commitment and to become competent in
philosophy and theology. It was a communal life that demanded a
strong spiritual enrichment…” No one mislead you. You mother,
when you left for the friary, said: “Knowingly you have come along
to the door of your new house… Now, with your Brothers, return to
the work as always. Remember me in your prayers and never forget
that, above all, you are a son of God and St. Francis. How much is
asked, but you do not merit grief for your own loved ones, if that
does not give you joy to have found the true way of life…” Thus
began your life as a Religious.
❖ Instill in the Church a generous spirit capable of leaving all to follow
Christ. We ask in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that all priests are felt to be witnesses of the faith as a
resource to the people. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that all priests remain in communion with the Pope and
the Bishops. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we profit those present every moment, with the
testimony of our fraternal life. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Fifth Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, your life was simple and far from easy. You
were tried by suffering and temptations and the pain rendered
your heart like a pruned grapevine. Never did you desire that
your suffering become visible exteriorly and you preferred to
suffer in silence. To be seen wounded was not important
because you knew that it was God who wounded you; you
have learned well that to accept suffering does not mean
neither to be sorry, neither to love suffering but rather to
accept that it therefore humbles one, as the earth accepts rain
from the heavens that penetrates to its depths. In this way you
coped, Padre Pio, and were able to hide your suffering with the
rose of serene acceptance.
❖ Teach us to have an authentic Christian attitude toward
suffering so that its purifying and evangelistic action can be
completed in us. We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord.
Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that we understand suffering in a Christian context.
Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we accept in the spirit of faith our illnesses and
those of our brothers. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we know to value our suffering as an instrument
of purification and evangelization. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Sixth Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, from childhood you offered yourself as a victim for
others. God accepted your aspiration, and at San Giovanni Rotondo, you
became “another Christ” suffering. Of your interior struggles you said:
“Who will be able to discover the interior martyrdom that I suffer? A
single memory of those inner battles makes my blood run cold in my
veins. I heard the voice that called me to obey you, O God, but your
enemies tyrannize me, wrench my bones and contort my entrails…” One
day, on your body, appeared a stigmata. You desired to be a victim for all,
for those that you knew and for those that you didn’t know for the just
and the unjust. For the time of your discharge from military service you
had become aware of much evil in the world, and you offered yourself for
the Church and you asked God that He discharge on you His punishments
for these evils as necessary propitiation: you wanted to bear the
punishment for the sins of others.
❖ Grant to us from God the ability to accept sufferings and to make them an
offering of love. We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that our sufferings become the portal to a union with Christ. Let
us pray.
❖ Bullet So that God will help us comprehend the efficacious power of
accepting our crosses. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that God will teach us how to accept and offer our sufferings to
Him. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Seventh Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, man of faith and prayer, the multitudes of yesterday and
today have come and continue to come to you: Why? They see a man of God, a
man of great faith, a man become prayer, a man of suffering, one crucified
without a cross… and they remain mute, contemplating your passing hours and
hours on end in the choir loft, before the crucified Lord and at the feet of Our
Lady of Grace. Who are you to those who come to you, you were asked one day,
and you replied: “Among you I am a human being, on the Altar a victim, and in
the Confessional a judge.” Your Mass was something magnificent! The people
crowded close around the Alter, saw you transfigured by love and suffering, and
believed! The intensity of the ardor, with all proclaiming that you lived the
Passion of Christ and that you were immolated with Him, was marvelous. Pope
Paul VI recognized you with these words: “Look at the renown and the world
wide following he has brought together around himself! Why? Because he
celebrated Mass with humility, heard confessions from morning to evening, and
was a man of God.”
❖ Most dear Padre Pio, intercede for us before God, that we may live our faith as
you lived yours, that Mass may become the source and the summit of our ardor
and that our life passes into a constant, living communion with Him. We ask this
in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that the Holy Mass and the Eucharist be the source and the summit of
our faith. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that, following your example, we live in constant communion with
God. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we accept unsparingly the adversities that are placed before us as
a test of our faith. Let us pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Eighth Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, for Christians suffering is a necessary test of faith. God
chose you to be a victim and you became a sacrificial lamb as an offering
for love. You offered yourself to God so that others may have life
everlasting. Concern for the well being of others is a hallmark of Christian
life. You bear your love to bring among men the presence of God, and
thus profess your devotion to Him: “We must love others because they
are visible images of God and to love them as God loves them… If God
has willingly overwhelmed us with gifts, we cannot lock them up in a
trunk without forsaking the good fruits that they must produce.” Your
love of God and humanity moved you to suffer with those who are
suffering. It was impossible to eliminate suffering but you saw that you
could bring relief and felt obligated to do something. Thus the great work
to alleviate suffering was brought into being – The Home for the Relief of
Suffering – your hospital!
❖ We want to learn from you this sensibility. Never must we pass
indifferently by our suffering brothers. We ask this in the name of Christ
our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that the elderly and the sick receive from us the affection that
they deserve. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we manifest our love of God with works of charity towards
our fellow men. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we know how to awaken hope in the sick and that our
hearts are always full of good will towards those who are suffering. Let us
pray.
ST. PADRE PIO of Pietrelcina,
NINE-DAY NOVENA

Ninth Day

❖ O holy Padre Pio, crucified without the cross, your existence,

marked by the preternatural, was humanly inexplicable. Your whole
life was on of total dedication to God and your fellow man and, like
Christ, always doing good. The crowds rushed to you, to your Mass,
to your Confessional, for your blessing, to your devotional
practices… and returned home comforted and content. Today you
continue to be our defender before the throne of God and, every
year, millions of people visit your tomb seeing grace or giving
thanks for miracles obtained through your intercession.
❖ Dear Padre Pio, with great trust we turn to you to beg your
intercession and to seek refuge. Pray for us; obtain from God the
graces we need. We ask this in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

❖ Intentions:
❖ Bullet So that we be good witnesses of the faith for the world. Let
us pray.
❖ Bullet So that we pass on to future generations our way of life
loving God and the Church. Let us pray.
❖ Bullet So that, in this proud age so preoccupied in possessing more
and more, we serve as witnesses to a higher value, as was Saint Pio
of Pietrelcina. Let us pray.
Chaplet of St. Pio

Oh Jesus, fill of grace and charity,

victim for sinners,
so impelled by Your love for us
that You willed to die on the cross,
I humbly entreat Thee
to glorify in heaven and on earth,
the servant of God,
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina,
who generously participated in
Your sufferings,
who loved Thee so much
and labored so faithfully
for the glory of Your heavenly Father
and for the good of souls.
With Confidence,
I beseech Thee to grant me,
through his intercession,
the grace of…

(Mention your intentions)

which I ardently desire.

Say three sets of

Our Father, Hail Mary & Glory be to the Father
on each of the beads…
Efficacious Novena to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus

❖ Oh my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given to
you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I
knock, I seek, and I ask for the grace of… (Mention your intentions)
❖ Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father…
❖ Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

❖ Oh my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the
Father in My Name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your Name, I ask the
Father for the grace of… (Mention your intentions)
❖ Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father…
❖ Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

❖ Oh my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass
away, but My words will not pass away.” Encouraged by Your infallible
words, I now ask for the grace of… (Mention your intentions)
❖ Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father…
❖ Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

❖ O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have

compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant
us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate
Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.

❖ Hail, Holy Queen…

❖ St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

❖ (This novena prayer was recited every day by St. Pio for all those who
asked for his prayers. The faithful are invited to recite it daily, so as to be
spiritually united with the prayer of St. Pio.)
Prayer to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus

Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us
humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish
to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us
freely consecrated himself today to Thy most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy
precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful
Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not
only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the
prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may
quickly return to Thy Father’s house lest they die of wretchedness and
hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or
whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth
and unity of faith, so that there may be but one flock and one
Shepherd.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity
from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth
resound from pole to pole with one cry: “Praise be to the divine Heart
that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever.

Amen.
Prayer for the Intercession
of St. Pio of Pietrelcina
(by † Pope John Paul II)

Padre Pio,
teach us too,
we pray, humility,
that we may be counted among the
humble of heart in the Gospel
to whom the Father promised
to reveal the mysteries
of His Kingdom.
Obtain for us an expression
of faith capable of recognizing Jesus
in the faces of the poor and suffering.
Sustain us during our times of
trial and struggle and,
should we fall,
let us experience the
joy of forgiveness in the
Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Teach us tender devotion towards Mary,
Mother of Christ and our Mother.
Accompany us on our earthly pilgrimage
towards the blessed Homeland,
where we, too, hope to arrive
to contemplate eternally
the glory of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

(Pope John Paul II recited this prayer on the occasion of the canonization of Padre
Pio, June 16, 2002)
Stay with me, Lord

❖ Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget
You. You know how easily I abandon You.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall
so often.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and always be in Your
company.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for
You, a nest of Love.
❖ Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life
passes. Death, judgment and eternity approach. It is necessary to renew my
strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting
late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the
cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!
❖ Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You. Let me recognize
You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic
Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me,
the unique joy of my heart.
❖ Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to
You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.
❖ Stay with me, Jesus, I do not ask for Divine consolation, because I do not merit it,
but the gift of your presence. Oh yes, I ask this of you!
❖ Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will,
Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You
more and more. With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and
continue to love You perfectly during all eternity.

❖ Amen.
St. Pio’s Prayer of Today for
Tomorrow

Eternal Father, today, while I am fully conscious, totally lucid

and completely free, I offer You my life with all its mystery
and suffering.
Indeed, Eternal Father, I offer You my life as an ultimate act of
love, as an act of infinite gratitude, as an act of faith in Your
mercy.
My God and Father, accept this prayer I am making to You
now for the day when You will call me back to You.
If I am unconscious at the final moment of my life, if anguish
and doubt assail me, if medication prevents me from thinking
of You, I want my last heartbeat to be an act of perfect love,
telling You with Jesus, “Into Your hands, I commend my
spirit.”

Amen.