St. Francis de Sales SCC

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Oct 27, 2020 0 1433 Add to Reading List

Moderator: Christopher Maina

JUMUIA SECRETARY:

Email address: secretary@donboscoshrine.org

MEETING (Day and time):

About Jumuyias

St Francis de Sales Small Christian community was established in 2007. It was established to cater for parishioners living outside the official boundaries of the parish especially Kilimani, Lavington, Riruta, Ngong road the environs. Its spirituality is based on the teaching of our patron saint, St Francis de Sales

BIOGRAPHY OF OUR PATRON SAINT

Francis De Sales (1567-1622), bishop of Geneva and doctor of the church. He wrote widely and is best known for the devotional classic Introduction to a Devout Life, emphasized that spiritual perfection is possible for people from all walks of life. He is the patron saint of writers.

PRAYER OF JUMUIA

NOVENA OF OUR PATRON SAINT

Dear St Francis de Sales, by your life and in your writings, you teach us to follow Christ by loving God our Father, and all other persons, our brothers, and sisters. Obtain for us the grace to be led by the Holy Spirit, so that we show our love for God by fidelity to prayer, by diligence in our work, by cheerful service of others. Teach us to be patient and forgiving, kind, and helpful to all. Help us to face the difficulties and sufferings of life with a heart full of trust in God our ever-loving Father.

Dear St Francis de Sales, while on earth you were always ready to help those in need. Come to my aid and obtain for me from God, through the intercession of Our Lady, the special grace for which I now pray.

O gentle St Francis de Sales, bless our home with your presence. May our hearts glow with love for God and a sincere concern for others, so that our lives may show in word and deed the blessings of your patronage. Amen.

O Blessed Francis de Sales, who in your mortal life did excel in all virtues, especially in the love of God and of neighbor, I earnestly entreat you to take me under your immediate protection, to obtain from God my perfect conversion, and that of all sinners, especially of (the names of persons for whom you wish to pray should be mentioned here).

Teach me, O Father, to fix my eyes on heaven, that I may generously trample under foot every obstacle that presents itself in my way, and attain that degree of glory which You in Your mercy hold out to me. Obtain also that particular favor for which I now pray.(mention intention)

Assist us, O Lord, we beseech You, through the merits of St. Francis de Sales. That what our endeavors cannot obtain may be given us by his intercession.

Let us pray:

O God, who for the salvation of souls, did will that St. Francis de Sales, Your confessor, and bishop, should become all things to all men and women, mercifully grant that we, infused with the gentleness of his charity, guided by his teachings, and sharing in his merits, may obtain eternal happiness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.