Novena for Rain - Day 7 - Rural Works of Mercy (Leviticus 19:8-10)

 How to Pray the Novena    

• Begin with the Sign of the Cross. Read the daily scripture verse(s) and spend a few moments in meditation.
• Pray the daily novena prayer followed by the prayer in honor of St. Isidore.
• Then pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be three times for the intention of the Holy Father.  
• Conclude with the Prayer for Rain and the Sign of the Cross.

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In the name of the Father + and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit +. Amen.

Seventh Day: Rural Works of Mercy (Leviticus 19:8-10)

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Likewise, you shall not pick your vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have fallen. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the LORD, am your God. 

Prayer:  May the grace of the Holy Spirit, we beseech You, O Lord, enlighten our hearts, and refresh them abundantly with the sweetness of perfect charity. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Prayer in Honor of St. Isidore     

O God, who taught Adam the simple art of tilling the soil, and who through Jesus Christ, the true vine, revealed Yourself the husbandman of our souls, deign, we pray, through the merits of Blessed Isidore, to instill into our hearts a horror of sin and a love of prayer, so that, working the soil in the sweat of our brow, we may enjoy eternal happiness in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be for the Intention of the Holy Father (3 times)

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, 

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 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.

Prayer for Rain     

O God, in Whom we live and move, and have our being, grant us rain, in due abundance, that, being sufficiently helped with temporal gifts, we may the more confidently seek after eternal gifts. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

In the name of the Father + and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit +. Amen.