A Catholic novena is typically recited for nine consecutive days.
When praying a novena in the lead up to a feast day, the novena commonly finishes on the eve of the feast.
Pray a novena for a particular intention or to simply invoke a Saint’s intercession in the lead up to their feast day.
St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Start date: 30 July
Feast date: 8 August
Intentions: Australia
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Start date: 31 July
Feast date: 9 August
Intentions: loss of parents; converts
St. Lawrence
Start date: 1 August
Feast date: 10 August
Intentions: school children; cooks
St. Clare of Assisi
Start date: 2 August
Feast date: 11 August
Intentions: eye disease; television; laundry
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Start date: 3 August
Feast date: 12 August
Intentions: forgotten people; widows; parents separated from children
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Start date: 5 August
Feast date: 14 August
Intentions: drug addicts; people with eating disorders; families
The Assumption of Mary
Start date: 6 August
Feast date: 15 August
Intentions: personal intentions
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Start date: 13 August
Feast date: 22 August
Intentions: personal intentions
St. Rose of Lima
Start date: 14 August
Feast date: 23 August
Intentions: family problems; those ridiculed for their piety
St. Monica
Start date: 18 August
Feast date: 27 August
Intentions: mothers, wives, alcoholics, conversions
St. Augustine
Start date: 19 August
Feast date: 28 August
Intentions: theologians
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Start date: 30 August
Feast date: 8 September
Intentions: personal intentions
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