O most kind and loving saint, in union with you, I adore the divine majesty. The remembrance of the favours with which God blessed you during life, and of your glory after death, fills me with joy; and I unite with you in offering to him my humble tribute of thanksgiving and of praise.

I implore of you to secure for me, through your powerful intercession the all important blessing of living and dying in the state of grace. I also beseech you to obtain the favour I ask in this novena (here ask the favour you wish to obtain), but if what I ask is not for the glory of God or the good of my soul, obtain for me what is most conducive to both, Amen.

O God, who was pleased to gather unto your Church the peoples of the East by the preaching and miracles of blessed Francis, mercifully grant that we, who honour his glorious merits, may also imitate the example of his virtues, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.