Glorious Saint Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God. To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me. Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor. Inspire me to imitate you in all things. May your blessing be with me always, so that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom.

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Graciously obtain for me from God
those favors and graces
which I need so much in the trials,
miseries and afflictions of life.
Your heart was always full of love,
compassion and mercy toward those who were afflicted
or troubled in any way.
You never dismissed without consolation
and assistance anyone who had recourse to you.
I therefore invoke your powerful intercession,
confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers
and obtain for me the special grace and favor I earnestly implore.

(State your intention here...)

Help me, great Saint Benedict,
to live and die as a faithful child of God,
to run in the sweetness of His loving will,
and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.

Amen.

A Prayer in Honor of St. Benedict For a Happy Hour of Death

O holy Father blessed by God both in grace and in name, who while standing in prayer with thy hands raised to Heaven didst most happily yield thine angelic spirit into the hands of thy Creator, and who hast promised zealously to defend against all the snares of the enemy, in the last struggle of death, those who should daily remind thee of thy glorious departure and thy heavenly joys, protect me, I beseech thee, O glorious Father, this day and every day, by thy holy blessing, that I may never be separated from our blessed Lord, from thy company, and from that of all the blessed, through the same Christ Our Lord.  Amen.

(Once St. Gertrude reminded St. Benedict of his glorious death; thereupon the holy Patriarch gave her the following assurance:  “All who invoke me, remembering the glorious death with which God honored me, shall be assisted by me at their death with such fidelity that I will place myself where I see the enemy most disposed to attack them.  Thus being fortified by my presence, they will escape the snares which he lays for them and depart happily and peacefully to the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.”)

A Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great in Honor of St. Benedict

I salute thee, through the Heart of Jesus, O great St. Benedict!  I rejoice in thy glory, and I give thanks to Our Lord for all the benefits which He has showered upon thee: I praise Him and glorify Him and I offer thee, for an increase of thy joy and honor, the most gentle Heart of Jesus.  Deign therefore, O beloved Father, to pray for us, that we may become according to the Heart of God.  Amen