We invite you to pray together regularly with Saint Agnes for the special vocation of the youth of the Catholic Church in Indonesia. The text of the Novena Santa Agnes Prayer can be downloaded below. The Novena can be done from 12-20 January, because on 21 January we celebrate the anniversary of Saint Agnes, as a martyr.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Prayer of Repentance | I Believe | our Father
We pray: Please ask for a special calling for the youth of the Church in Indonesia.
O glorious Saint Agnes, with the living faith that animated you from your tender years and made you so much supplicate to God that you merited the crown of a martyr: obtaining for us the grace to keep our holy faith pure within us and to profess ourselves Christians in word and deed.
May our open confession of Jesus before men cause Him to bear a good testimony for us before His eternal Father.
O invincible Martyr, Saint Agnes, by your trust in God's help, when condemned by the Roman prefect to see the lily of your purity stained and trampled in the mud, you did not despair, but still trusted firmly in God.
We ask Him with a heartfelt supplication.
O brave girl, most pure Saint Agnes, by the fiery love with which your heart burned, and which kept you from danger amid the fires of passion and the stakes with which the enemies of Christ sought to destroy you.
Obtain for us from Almighty God that every impure fire can be extinguished within us and only the fire of Divine Love can burn within us. So that after spending a sinless life in the practice of these virtues, we may be worthy to have a share in the glory that You merited by the purity of Your heart and Your noble holiness. Amen.
Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr, pray for us.
3 Hail Marys and Glory to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
