Novena to Saint Rita of Cascia for Home Protection

The Novena to Santa Rita is performed by a large number of people who are Catholic believers who believe in her as the great intercessor before God. In the following article we will know everything about how the Novena to Santa Rita has to be carried out properly and without fail for the protection of the home.

Novena to Saint Rita of Cascia

The novena to Santa Rita is performed with the purpose that she comes to intercede before God for all believers who require her help to obtain the answers to their needs. This novena should be performed with the help of some prayers, among which are:

• The Prayer for Every Day.

• The Preparatory Prayer for Every Day.

• The Prayer of the Act of Contrition.

• The Opening Prayer – Must be performed before beginning the Novena to Saint Rita.
• The Final Prayer – Which must be performed at the end of the Novena to Santa Rita. 

Now we are going to observe how each of the prayers that we mentioned before should be carried out correctly.

Prayer for every day

Every time you go to perform the novena to Santa Rita, you must begin with the daily prayer or daily preparation, which begins with the following word:

Preparatory Prayer for Every Day

This is the prayer with which people can prepare before beginning the Novena to Saint Rita, which goes as follows:

Lord my great, omnipotent and merciful God, I ask you to convert me so that I can repent of all my sins. I ask you to touch me so that I get up and come to you and also that you have mercy on me oh my lord.

I ask you, my Lord, to grant me the remedy for all my needs that I now present to you (name your needs at this time, what do you want to present to him), and that I place your Saint Rita de Casia as a great intercessor, whom many of the believers They invoke Santa Rita through this kind of novena. Please give me, Lord of your grace, so that one day I can sing your great praises in the kingdom of heaven. Amen.

act of contrition

The prayer of the act of contrition that you must perform at each moment or day that you are going to make the novena is the following:

My Lord Jesus Christ, God and also true man, who is the Creator, Father and Redeemer of all his believers: because you are the greatest person full of Kindness, on this day I tell you that I love you, Lord, more than all things that I have or will have and more than myself.

I am greatly sorry for having offended you; and for your great love, and because you wanted it that way and you send it to me, I tell you that from the depths of my heart I forgive all my enemies, so that you, my Lord, use your forgiveness with me as well as your infinite mercy and that you forget my past offenses.

So I offer you my life, all my works and also my works in full satisfaction of all my sins. I ask you to grant me the grace to be able to persevere in your love and service until death. Amen.

Opening Prayer

This is the initial prayer that must be made before beginning the Novena to Santa Rita, which says as follows:

My God and Lord, who, disposing of everything with great admirable providence, have come to place all the saints in your church so that they become a model of constant holiness of all the virtues, and who, you called them to your bosom, which have constituted as protectors and advocates:

Listen to the propitious prayers of your great servant Santa Rita, who came to give the world as a living example in the different states of life, and that you grant us that everything that through our weakness we cannot obtain, you obtain for us. us through your powerful intercession. Amen.

It is recommended to end with the recitation of the prayer to Santa Rita de Casia on the day that corresponds to each of the days.

Final prayer for every day

This is the final prayer that is made when the Novena to Santa Rita is going to end, in order to conclude everything. The sentence goes as follows:

Oh great sweet and most painful Jesus, so that with all your Most Sacred Body that came to be wounded and also tormented by my faults, you wanted your holy head to come to be crowned with thorns, and you deigned to offer and give with it 1 of your chosen, coming to mark her with this sign and also pointing her out as a woman.

I ask you to grant me, oh Lord, the intercession of your saint; and by the blood that, serving as an instrument the thorns, flowed from your delicate head and ran down your beautiful face, I ask you to make me, water my whole soul with it, be cleansed and purified at the same time and carry the copious fruits of good deeds.

Pointing with the final perseverance, to which you get promised the great eternal life, where you are going to enjoy and praise with you beloved, my protector and advocate, and with all the choirs of Saints and angels that come to you to praise and bless you in your eternal glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Antiphon

On this day I greet you, Santa Rita, the great wife who was born among the thorns of pain, being the vessel and even the Rose of Christ, his divine love. My Lord, our God, who came to grant Saint Rita the grace of being able to carry on her forehead the sign of your Passion and in her heart the great ardent charity of yours.

I ask you to grant him through his intercession and through his merits that we may love all our neighbors, even though they become enemies, with perfect charity, and that we may perpetually contemplate on the thorn of compunction of sorrows intensity of your Passion. That you live and that you also reign forever and ever. Amen.

Supplication and Novena to Saint Rita of Cascia

With my soul full of great confidence for the continuous favors that you reach from heaven for the good of all your faithful who are devoted to you, on this day I come before your presence to beg you to intercede with your beloved and Redeemer the world. with the purpose that you hear what I ask you at this moment for your great power and your infinite mercy.

To you who came to receive during your long and holy life, a great and repeated sample of being a soul that is privileged by his great love, he will attend to you as all kind if you get to pray for me with that same type of fervor that in every moment encourages you when you prostrate yourself to intercede at the feet of the Saint who was crucified.

At this time, he is going to explain briefly and ask with all his heart what he truly wants to achieve.

For your great merits of prompt obedience to the opinion of your beloved parents, of self-sacrificing resignation before what is the roughness of your loved one, of charitable and heroic immolation of your little ones and your beloved children, of acute sorrow when you get to observe the difficulties that you came to have in order to enter the abode of the greatest desires, the Religious Cloister.

For the severe pain caused by the thorn in the forehead, ask, oh glorious saint, that you grant me that through your intercession with great Asia you want my soul alive. If he wants he can grant it to me, because his divine hand is great, omnipotent in all heaven and earth.

 If it were to be for the greater Glory of the Most High, and also for the good of my soul, may he see my request heard and well attended to, whose good result to your prayer, which I trust to obtain the power and goodness of his paternal Heart. Amen.

Oh Santa Rita de Casia, you who are the Lawyer of Impossible cases, pray for your devotee.

(This phrase must be repeated about 3 times in a row)

First day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Prayer

God of all goodness, the Lord of all angels, the refuge of those who hope in you, I ask you to listen to my prayers on this day, for the merits of all the saints and in particular for those of Saint Rita de Casia, since at all times she was willing to come to fulfill your holy will.

Through your intercession, I ask you to grant me the power to live at all times as an authentic Christian, hoping that you will give me the grace and favor that I ask of you in this Novena to Saint Rita. If it is for your glory and for the good of my soul. Amen.

Once this prayer of this day is finished, the twenty-two (22) Hail Mary prayer is made to Santa Rita de Casia to culminate.

Lord’s word

In the word of God in the book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 3 to 12 says:

“Jesus tells you: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who suffer, because they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, because they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are those who work for peace, because they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of justice, because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you, persecute you and say false things about you because of me. Rejoice and jump for joy, because your prize will be great in heaven.”

Matthew 5:3-12

Now at this moment you are asked for the grace that we so much desire to obtain through the intercession of Saint Rita

Closing Prayer

Oh Santa Rita, you who in a prodigious way came to participate in the painful passion of our beloved Lord Jesus, I ask you to help me suffer, with Christian resignation, the sorrows and also the difficulties of life and to protect me in all my needs. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

Second Day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: “Whoever accepts my commandments and keeps them, he loves me. Whoever loves me, my Father will love him, I will also love him and I will manifest myself to him.

John 14:21

Here we ask again for the grace that we so much desire to obtain through the intercession of Saint Rita.

Closing Prayer

Oh God, Holy Father, whom choirs of angels come to adore and praise, and to whom I join in praising you, I offer you on this day all the merits of Saint Rita de Casia, the protector and patron of many. Especially the great love with which she loved you. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

third day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: ‘Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.’

Luke 14:27

At this time you are going to take a few moments of reflection; and we are going to ask her for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

I ask you, oh Lord, through the intercession of Saint Rita, that you fill my heart with light and also with joy and that you grant me for the merits, the favor that I ask of you through this Novena to Saint Rita, if it is for glory. yours and for the good of my soul. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

fourth day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: “This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love for his friends than he who gives his life for them. You are my friends, if you do what I command you…, that you love one another”.

John 15:12-17

Take a few moments of reflection; and then ask him for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

I ask you to grant me, Lord, that, in imitation of your Saint Rita de Casia, that I may at all times show myself full of understanding and love towards all the brothers, as she came to live observing the great commandment and practicing at all times the evangelical advice. If it is for your glory and for the good of my soul. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

Fifth Day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:29

Take a few moments of reflection; and let us ask for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

I adore you, my God, I love you with all my heart, you who remedy all my needs, I praise you, I love you and I also bless you together with all your angels, as my God and as my Creator. I humbly ask you, that through the intercession of Santa Rita, I can join you and preserve me from sin and all evil, if it is for your glory and for the good of my soul. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

Days Six

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: “A tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. You will understand a person by their deeds”.

Matthew 7:19-20

Now we can ask her for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

Father and our God, whom all creatures both in heaven and on earth come to adore, as their great Lord, on this day I unite myself to praise you and also to bless you and for love of you, I love my neighbor like myself. I ask you to grant me through her intercession not to offend you anymore and to be able to flee from the next occasions of sin, if it is for your glory and for the good of my soul. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

day seven

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: “What good will it be for a man to gain the whole world, if he loses and ruins his life?”

Luke 9:25

Let us ask for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

My God, who came to grant Saint Rita the grace to be able to joyfully follow Christ in a life of poverty and humility, I offer you all the merits, particularly her patience and penance. Now, at this moment I humbly ask you to grant me what I ask of you, if it is for your glory and the good of my soul. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day.

Eighth Day

On this day, before beginning, we first say the opening words, which is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the opening prayer for each day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: I will do what you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

John 19:13

At this time we can ask for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Saint Rita.

Closing Prayer

I ask you to listen, oh my Lord, to my prayer, to forgive my sins, so that your mercy may be manifested every day and in this way I can receive your forgiveness and your peace. I ask you to grant me everything I ask of you in this novena, so that I can serve you with renewed enthusiasm and continuously enjoy all your benefits. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

day ninth

It must begin first with the initial words that is: For the sign…, then we begin with the act of contrition and finally with the initial prayer for every day. Once all this is done, we begin with the prayer of this day.

Lord’s word

“Jesus tells you: There will be more joy in heaven for one sinner who converts, than for ninety-nine righteous people who do not need to convert.”

Luke 15:7

Let us ask at this moment for the grace that we wish to obtain through the intercession of Santa Rita.

Closing Prayer

To you, my Father, who at all times listen to your children and grant them more than what they ask for, I adore you, I praise you and I bless you together with all the choirs of angels, who fill you with your great love, who love you and They love you, so I consecrate you on this last day the Novena to Santa Rita, with all my being, with my heart, my intelligence and my senses so that I never commit sin and free me from all bodily misfortunes. If it is for your greater glory and good of my soul, and so one day I can participate in your eternal glory. Amen.

To finish the Novena to Santa Rita, it ends with 1 Our Father, about 4 Hail Marys and the final prayer of every day that we mentioned at the beginning of the novena.

Prayer to Saint Rita of Cascia

This is a simple prayer to Santa Rita the great lawyer of desperate cases. The sentence goes as follows:

Oh great powerful Santa Rita, who was granted the name of Lawyer of desperate cases, I ask you that on this day as the great helper in the last hope, and also as the refuge and salvation in pain, that you come to lead to the abyss of crime and also of despair: that with all the confidence in your power, come to my aid in the difficult case and also of great unforeseen that painfully oppresses my heart.

I ask you to speak, pray and intercede for me, which I truly do not dare to do for myself, to the Heart of God, Father of great mercy and also the great source of all consolation, and that you obtain for me the eternal grace that I desire ( at this moment you will indicate what you want me to give you the desired grace on).

Once presented, I know that it is certain that he will listen to me: and I will use this great favor to be able to improve my life and also all my customs, to be able to sing on earth and also in heaven all your divine mercies. Amen.

Petition to Saint Rita of Cascia

You who are blessed and the lawyer of impossible cases, Saint Rita of Cascia, the luminous model of patience, scourge of demons, the great refuge of all those in need, and the good example of Christian life.

Even more, above all, that you manage to reach a conversion in a total way and that you can come to amend me from my bad life through the merits of my beloved Lord Jesus Christ and through the merits of his holy mother. Amen.