ent for us to serve Him zealously and gratefully?

Remember, moreover, that you shall be unhappy both in this and in the
next world if you do not give yourself entirely to God, for whom you
were created. St. Augustine says: "Thou hast created us for Thee, O
Lord, and our heart remains restless till it rests in Thee."

PRACTICE

THANK God for the undeserved grace of creation and redemption. Make an
act of contrition for having served Him so negligently. Promise
amendment, and invoke the aid of God's grace through the intercession of
the Holy Helpers.

_Prayer_

O GOD, who according to the decrees of Thy providence hast created man
for eternal bliss; grant, through the intercession of the Holy Helpers,
that I may attain to my destiny by being united with Thee in this life
and loving and praising Thee for ever in heaven. Amen.

Litany and Prayers (located on the first day of the novena).

THIRD DAY

The Virtue of Faith

Preparatory Prayer (located at the start of the novena).

MEDITATION

THE Holy Helpers were so thoroughly imbued with the virtue of divine
faith, that they believed its sacred truths with perfect abandonment of
their intellect, will, liberty, and whole being. They wavered not amid
the severest torments, but remained firm until death in the confession
of Christ.

Our time is noted for assaults on the Faith and on the Church that
teaches it. The Church, the depository of divine revelation, is
blasphemed in her doctrine, in her precepts, in her sacraments, in her
ministers, in her cult, in her entire essence. Were you never ashamed of
your Catholic name? What cowardliness, what timidity, what downright
malice!

PRACTICE

REVIVE your faith by the consideration of the example of the Holy
Helpers. Do not, from human respect, neglect the sanctification of the
Lord's Day, the observance of days of fast and abstinence, the reception
of the holy sacraments, the profession of your belief in the real
presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, etc. Meditate frequently
on the words of Christ: "He that shall deny Me before men, I will also
deny him before My Father who is in heaven" (_Matt._ x. 33).

_Prayer_

O GOD, I beseech Thee, through the faith of the Holy Helpers, grant me
the grace to treasure in my heart the doctrines of our holy faith, to
believe them firmly, to confess them bravely, and to live according to
their precepts, that through that same faith I may become worthy to be
adm