Holy Innocents — Nine-Day Prayer with Historic Mass Collect
Day 8 of 9
Day 8 — Traditional Latin Collect — Holy Innocents — Nine-Day Prayer with Historic Mass Collect, Day 8
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Giotto, Massacre of the Innocents (1304–1306), Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, public-domain fresco: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GiottoInnocenti.jpg
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Opening prayer
Make the Sign of the Cross. Pray the historical liturgical collect in original Latin, repeated each day of this private nine-day devotion.
Prayer for day 8
Deus, cujus hodierna die praeconium Innocentes Martyres non loquendo, sed moriendo confessi sunt: omnia in nobis vitiorum mala mortifica; ut fidem tuam, quam lingua nostra loquitur, etiam moribus vita fateatur. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum. Amen.
Holy Innocents, pray for us.
Traditional prayers
Our Father
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
Closing prayer
Conclude with the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be, according to personal devotion.
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source · Traditional Latin Roman Missal collect for Holy Innocents, December 28: https://extraordinaryform.org/masses/1228HolyInnocentsM20.pdf . The nine-day private-devotion adaptation is editorial, not a historical claim that the Missal prescribes it.