Day 8 of 9
Day 8 — The Reward of Holiness — Saint Martin de Porres Novena, Day 8
Free to pray — no account needed. An account only saves your progress and reminders.
Anonymous Italian master, Saint Martin de Porres, eighteenth-century oil painting. Wikimedia Commons, public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_de_Porres.jpg
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Opening prayer
Recall Saint Martin’s humble service of the sick and the poor. Offer your intention, and pray the traditional saint-specific invocation for this day.
Prayer for day 8
In this sorrow and need that weighs upon me, finding no human remedy, I turn to you with full confidence, O Blessed Martin, my advocate and protector. I trust in your powerful intercession before the merciful God: may He pardon my faults and free me from the evil that afflicts me. Grant me your spirit of sacrifice and resignation so that I may receive whatever comes with faith and offer it to God. O heavenly Father, through the beloved names of Jesus and Mary and the merits of your faithful servant Martin, help me in this trial. Do not let my body be imprisoned, my flesh wounded, my soul lost, or my blood shed. In you, glorious Martin, I place all my hope. Amen.
Saint Martin de Porres, 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
Saint Martin de Porres, pray for us. Pray a decade of the Rosary according to your customary devotion.
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source · Traditional Afro-Peruvian Oración a San Martín de Porres documented in Más allá del tiempo: literatura oral afroperuana, Ministerio de Educación del Perú, section Oraciones utilizadas en los novenarios: https://repositorio.minedu.gob.pe/bitstream/handle/20.500.12799/6905/M%C3%A1s%20all%C3%A1%20del%20tiempo%20literatura%20oral%20afroperuana.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 ; English translation by Totus Catholica, private nine-day arrangement of the saint-specific traditional invocation. Separate fully written nine-day novena published by the Dominican Friars (not copied): https://dominicanfriars.org/martin-novena-post/ . Wikimedia historical painting public domain.