Info from this site:
happinessisprayer.blogspot.com/2009/01/novena-to-st-benedict.html
🌚Matins (12midnight)
You spent your early days in the university studying to be someone in the world, but all these you left behind, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to seek solitude in the mountains of Subiaco, Italy. You lived in a cave and survived by eating root crops and other food available in those mountains. You searched for God and God also found you. Inspire us, dear saint, to understand that God is within us and we can only encounter him in the silence of our hearts. Make us aware that the noise within us keeps us away from God—the noise of our ambitions, love for money, and honor. Wherever we are we can silence this noise. Help us, dear saint, to obtain silence within us. Amen.
💤Lauds (3am)
You attracted followers to whom you gave a rule known for its moderation. You, St. Benedict, became a father to many monasteries and monks through this rule where you emphasized that the monastery is for people who want to change their bad habits into good. Make us aware of our bad habits and inspire us not to be comfortable with them. Our bad habits, dear saint, will keep us away from Jesus and engrained in us the power of sin, help us that we may work for the transformation of our bad habits. Amen.
😴Prime (6am)
You showed us that if we want to be close to God, we must be able to discipline ourselves. You taught your disciples how to mortify their senses, control their passions, and thoughts so that Jesus can live in their hearts and minds. You emphasized that sanctification begins in our minds when we are able to distinguish the impure thoughts that lead us to sin. We ask your help, St. Benedict, that we may always be able to stop these deadly thoughts from influencing us, that we may not entertain them. Lead us to purification of mind and heart. Amen.
🌞Terce (9am)
Because of your work as a father in the monasteries, certain evil people wanted to poison you. You did not want to compromise the monastic ideals of silence and mortification; yet to their amazement, you drunk their poison and nothing happened to you. Jesus protected you. We live in a world today that is heavily poisoned by pollution and degradation of our forests and seas. Make us sensitive to the presence of these poisons and give us the wisdom not to be blinded by progress and easy money. Inspire us to contribute our part in making our world a better place to live in.
☀️Sext (12 noon)
St. Benedict, you understood prayer as basking in God’s presence, experiencing his loving hands in our day to day struggles. While you worked in the fields, your heart sang hymns to your creator and you offered him a constant prayer of thanksgiving. May we imitate you in your unending prayer to the most High; wherever we go and whatever we do, may we remember Jesus and offer him our thanksgiving. For you the highest kind of prayer is when you kneel in silence and uttering just one word, you come into contact with Jesus himself. You established monasteries that they may become the birthplace of contemplatives, people who in silence utter your name and experience your presence in their hearts. Teach us this kind of prayer, when your presence becomes everything. Enable us to be contemplatives, who put our utter trust in Jesus and who really believe that God’s Kingdom is already in our midst.
🌝None(3pm)
Despite your material poverty, you were always mindful of the poor and the needy. From the little produce of your monastery, you happily shared something for the poor who knocked daily at your door. Through you, the hungry had always their fill. May we learn from your charity and open our doors to those unprivileged. Inspire us to understand that our faith’s best expression is the help we extend to the needy.
🌛Vespers (6pm)
You taught your followers to welcome visitors as if they were Christ in his person. Your rule of hospitality enabled you to treat with respect strangers and offer for them the warmth of your welcome. Teach us to be welcoming in our homes, to treat our guests with respect, and enable them to feel the warmth of Christ’s embrace. Teach us to develop a listening ear that guests may easily feel that we are authentically interested in their welfare and well-being,where the sorrowful may encounter relief of their sufferings.
🌜Compline (9pm)Glorious St. Benedict who taught us the way to perfection by the practice of mortification, humility, obedience, prayer, silence, and detachment from the world, take my present needs under your special protection (here make your request)
Recommend it to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus. Cease not to intercede for me until the request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace to meet God face to face with you, Mary, and all the angels and saints to praise him through all eternity. O most powerful St. Benedict, do not let me lose my soul, but obtain for me the grace of winning my way to heaven and there worship and enjoy the most holy and adorable Trinity forever and ever. Amen.
Info from this site:
happinessisprayer.blogspot.com/2009/01/novena-to-st-benedict.html
For a bit of art therapy, providing a coloring page to provide a little relaxation for all the hard workers laboring in the vineyard.
📿Saint Benedict Chaplet Prayer📿
Information: The chaplet construction was based on the writings of St. Benedict. Also, there are 7 beads in each group to represent the 7 sacraments. To receive the spiritual benefits, the medal (blessed by a priest using the prayer of exorcism) may be devoutly worn around the neck, attached to a scapular or rosary or carried in a pocket. It is often placed on the corners of fields or building foundations (or attached to automobiles) to call down God's blessing and protection through the intercession of St. Benedict.
"In Benedictine prayer, we empty ourselves to make room for the contemplative love of God."
🙏🏻PRAYERS
On the medal:
Gracious and Holy Father, give us the wisdom to discover You, the intelligence to understand You, the diligence to seek after You, the patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You and a life to proclaim You; through the power of the Spirit of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.
💧On the first single bead:
God our Father, in Your Goodness, grant me the intellect to comprehend You, the perception to discern You and the reason to appreciate You.
On the 7 other beads:
Teach me to walk in Your Ways, O Lord, with the Gospel as my guide.
💧On the second single bead:
In Your Kindness, endow me with the intelligence to look for You, the wisdom to discover You and the spirit to apprehend You.
On the 7 other beads:
May Your Holy Cross be my light; may Satan never be my guide.
💧On the third single bead:
In Your Graciousness, bestow on me a heart to contemplate You, ears to hear You, eyes to see You and a tongue to speak of You.
On the 7 other beads:
May I be strengthened by Your Presence, O Lord, at the hour of death.
💧On the fourth single bead:
In Your Mercy, confer on me a conversation pleasing to You, the patience to wait for You and the perseverance to long for You.
On the 7 other beads:
Begone Satan! Never tempt me with your vanities; for what you offer is evil.
🙏🏽Closing Prayer:
Grant me a perfect end in Your Holy Presence, O Lord. Amen.
Info from this site:
www.rosaryandchaplets.com/chaplets/st_benedict_prayer.html