Summary: Holy Rule Novena to St. Benedict Day 9<br> <br> In the Holy Rule, St. Benedict you have said:<br> As there is a harsh and evil zeal which separates from God and leads to hell, so there is a virtuous zeal which separates from vice and leads to God and life everlasting.<br> Let the monks, therefore, practice this zeal with most ardent love; namely, that in honor they forerun one another (cf Rom 12:10). Let them bear their infirmities, whether of body or mind, with the utmost patience; let them vie with one another in obedience. Let no one follow what he thinks useful to himself, but rather to another. Let them practice fraternal charity with a chaste love.<br> Let them fear God and love their Abbot with sincere and humble affection; let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and my He lead us all together to life everlasting. (Holy Rule 72)<br> Glorious Saint Benedict,<br> sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God’s grace!<br> Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet.<br> I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God.<br> To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me.<br> Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor.<br> Inspire me to imitate you in all things.<br> May your blessing be with me always, so that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom.<br> Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life.<br> Your heart was always full of love, compassion and mercy toward those who were afflicted or troubled in any way.<br> You never dismissed without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to you.<br> I therefore invoke your powerful intercession, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I earnestly implore.<br> {mention your petition}<br> Help me, great Saint Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to run in the sweetness of His loving will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.<br> Amen.<br> O Holy Father, St. Benedict, pray for us.<br> <br> <br>
