Novena to St. Barbara

Opening Prayer

Almighty and eternal God,
with lively faith and reverently worshiping Your divine Majesty,
I prostrate myself before You
and invoke with filial trust
Your supreme bounty and mercy.

Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Your heavenly light
and inflame my heart with the fire of Your divine love,
that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of St. Barbara,
and following her example, imitate the life of Your divine Son.

Please grant through the merits and prayers of this powerful Helper
the petition which through her I humbly place before You,
devoutly saying,
"Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

May You most kindly hear and answer my prayer
for Your greater glory and for the salvation of my soul.

Prayer in Honor of St. Barbara

O God, Who adorned Your holy virgin and martyr Barbara
with extraordinary fortitude in the confession of the Faith,
and consoled her in her afflictions,
grant us through her prayers
perseverance in the fulfillment of Your law
and the grace of being fortified before our end with the holy sacraments,
and of a happy death.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen

Invocation of St. Barbara

Dear St. Barbara,
through Your intercession come to my aid in all needs of my soul.

Obtain for me the grace to be preserved from a sudden and unprovided death;
assist me in my agony,
when my senses fauk and I am in the throes of death.

O powerful patroness of the dying, come to my aid
when I am helpless to help myself!

Repel from me all the assaults and temptations of the evil one,
and obtain for me the grace to receive the final sacraments,
so that I may breathe forth my soul
confirmed in faith, hope, and charity,
and be worthy to enter eternal glory.

Amen.

Concluding Prayer

My Lord and my God,
I offer You my petition
in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Your Son,
together with the merits of His immaculate and blessed Mother,
Mary ever virgin,
and of all the saints,
particularly with those of St. Barbara.

Look down upon me, merciful Lord!

Grant me Your grace and Your love,
and graciously hear my prayer.

Amen.

Prayer to Obtain a Good Death

O Lord, Who selected St. Barbara for the consolation of the living and the dying,
grant us by her intercession
ever to live in Your divine love
and to put all our confidence
in the merits of the most sorrowful passion of Your Son.

May death not come upon us unawares,
but, comforted by the holy sacraments of Penance, Holy Eucharist and Extreme Unction,
may we set forth towards eternal glory without fear.

This we beseech You in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Edited to my taste.