Opening Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, we kneel before you in worship, praise and thanksgiving for the infinite love that you have shown to us sinners through your humble Incarnation, bitter Passion and cruel death on the Cross. By your wounds, we are healed. By your death, we are restored to life. Forgive us for not having returned love for your love. In your suffering, you have left us an example so that we may follow in your footsteps. The life of your young martyr and our brother, San Pedro Calungsod, proves to us that it is possible to follow you even up to death.
Be pleased with this novena that we are making in his memory. With his help, we shall strive to be living witnesses to your love through patient endurance in daily trials and selfless service to our neighbor, so that after having joined you in your redeeming Passion here on earth, we may also come to share in your glorious Resurrection at the end of time and love you eternally in Heaven, where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
Amen.
Be pleased with this novena that we are making in his memory. With his help, we shall strive to be living witnesses to your love through patient endurance in daily trials and selfless service to our neighbor, so that after having joined you in your redeeming Passion here on earth, we may also come to share in your glorious Resurrection at the end of time and love you eternally in Heaven, where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
Amen.
First Day: Knowing the Faith O San Pedro Calungsod, your faith in God grew stronger as you diligently tried to know the truths of our Catholic Faith. Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores chose and brought you as one of his trusted companions to the far-flung Mariana Islands to help him teach the Faith to the Chamorros.
O virtuous catechist, many of us have gone astray and have left the true Faith that we have received at Baptism because of our lack of knowledge of it. Encourage us to read and study our Catholic Catechism regularly. Make us understand that such an endeavor is not only for children but a responsibility of every Christian, so that like you, we may also be strong in faith.
Join us now as we pray for the Pope, the bishops, the priests and the cetechists, to whom God has entrusted the task of instructing us in the Faith, so that they may always be faithful and true to Christ who remains to be the same today as he was yesterday and as he will always be eternally.
O virtuous catechist, many of us have gone astray and have left the true Faith that we have received at Baptism because of our lack of knowledge of it. Encourage us to read and study our Catholic Catechism regularly. Make us understand that such an endeavor is not only for children but a responsibility of every Christian, so that like you, we may also be strong in faith.
Join us now as we pray for the Pope, the bishops, the priests and the cetechists, to whom God has entrusted the task of instructing us in the Faith, so that they may always be faithful and true to Christ who remains to be the same today as he was yesterday and as he will always be eternally.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
Closing Prayer Almighty and ever-living God, you are glorified in your saints. Graciously hear the prayers we offer through the intercession of your holy martyr Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
Guide and protect your pilgrim Church on earth. Grant your peace to our nation and to the whole world. Fill all our families with your grace. Preserve us in love and unity. Bless and guide our young people so that they will not be led astray. Help them to grow in faith, hope and charity. Convert those whose hearts are far from you. Comfort the sick and the lonely. Protect the poor and the oppressed. Welcome into your Kingdom our departed brothers and sisters.
We thank you for the graces you have granted us through the intercession of San Pedro Calungsod. We hope that after our mortal bodies will have slept in death you will raise us up to new life on the last day as your saints and join San Pedro in praising your Name forever in heaven.
Amen.
Guide and protect your pilgrim Church on earth. Grant your peace to our nation and to the whole world. Fill all our families with your grace. Preserve us in love and unity. Bless and guide our young people so that they will not be led astray. Help them to grow in faith, hope and charity. Convert those whose hearts are far from you. Comfort the sick and the lonely. Protect the poor and the oppressed. Welcome into your Kingdom our departed brothers and sisters.
We thank you for the graces you have granted us through the intercession of San Pedro Calungsod. We hope that after our mortal bodies will have slept in death you will raise us up to new life on the last day as your saints and join San Pedro in praising your Name forever in heaven.
Amen.
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There was once a lad from the VisayasWho left his land in search for graceless soulsHe spreads God's word with lips untiringHe is the servant of the Lord.
O Saint Pedro CalungsodFaithful child of GodBe to us a guideLead us to the light of Jesus Christ.
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