Nihil obstat: Reverend Ralph J. Lawrence, 19 January, 1996

Imprimatur: Most Reverend Carl K. Moeddel, Vicar General & Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 23 January, 1996

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First Day. O Divine Child Jesus of Good Health, through the infinite love with which You became Man in the virginal womb of Mary for our health and eternal happiness, I beg You for the salvation of my soul by Your grace, and for the favor I am asking in this Novena. I am always resigned to accept whatever Your Will may be. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Second day. O Child Jesus, most beautiful Child born of Your Immaculate Mother as the sun is born at dawn, You suffered with immense love the poverty of the manger and the inclemency of the weather for the sake of our salvation. Melt the coldness of my heart with the fire of Your Love and grant me (Petition) if it be Your holy Will. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Third day. O Child Jesus, Sun of True Justice, You enlighten the souls and minds of mankind with Your light. You love the simple souls, Your little ones. Grant me the graces of simplicity and humility which You love to see in me, and grant me the favor that I ask. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Fourth day. O Child Jesus, only Treasurer of Heaven and Earth, attracting all souls with the irresistible power of Your incomparable humility, teach me to despise the passing riches of this world and all that stands in the way of finding You; let me be like the three kings who came to the manger from far-away lands to adore You. Grant me, my Jesus, the special grace that I implore. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Fifth day. O Child of Good Health, my Jesus, Who had to suffer persecution and exile shortly after birth, with Your grace show me the virtues I need in order to endure the persecutions of this life. I deserve punishment for all my sins. You, innocent and blessed Child in the arms of Your worried Mother and Foster Father, St. Joseph, had to go to Egypt to escape the cruelty of Herod. Grant that I may always flee from the infernal spirits who want to ruin my soul so I may be worthy of the special favor I tearfully implore before Your blessed Image. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Sixth day. Child Jesus, my Love, only in You do I find the consolation I need in the trials that beset me. By the sorrows that Your most holy Mother suffered in the prophecy of holy Simeon, I beg You to pour on my sorrowful spirit the sweetness of Your divine consolation. My heart grows weak under the weight

of the sorrows that afflict my soul. One glance from Your divine eyes will heal my sufferings. Look at me, Child Jesus, grant me the help I ask and conform me to Your holy Will. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Seventh day. Child Jesus, dear Treasure of my soul, in the three days You were away from Your holy Parents, they were filled with anguish because You were lost through no fault of theirs. Oh rich Treasure of Heaven, let me be diligent in always keeping close to You, avoiding all sin, which is the only cause for my losing You. Knowing the sorrow that brings me before Your Image, O Child of Good Health, grant me the special grace I ask if it is best for the salvation of my soul. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Eighth day. O Incarnate Wisdom, Child of Good Health, Who astonished the doctors of the law with Your wise discourse, speak to me, O Lord, in the words of eternal life that I may be free of the ignorance which causes ruin of the soul. Grant me, together with the special grace I ask, the willing obedience I need to be Your loving disciple. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Ninth day. Child Jesus, Model of Humility and Obedience, after caring for the work of Your Holy Father, You returned with Mary and Joseph to Your humble home in Nazareth and were subject to them as their most obedient Son. O Child Jesus, awaken in the children of our time Your sublime childhood virtues. Grant that the parents of this age may not neglect the careful education of their children according to the principles of our Catholic Faith, and grant me the special grace I so urgently implore. Amen. (Conclude with daily prayers.)

Daily Prayers to be said every day of the Novena.
Prayer to the Holy Child Jesus of Good Health. Divine Child, loving little Shepherd who came from Heaven looking for Your dear sheep, not caring how arduous and tiring would be the work of saving souls and giving Your last drop of blood to accomplish the task of our redemption, open the ears of my soul so I may respond to Your grace and listen to Your loving inspirations. I promise to surrender toYour call and to avoid all things which may endanger my salvation being certain that I was not merely created for the pleasures of this life. My destiny is most noble for You have created me for greater happiness. To think that so often I have looked for the passing riches of this life! By Your infinite mercy, forgive my stubborn resistance to Your call, my persistence in sin, and my despicable weakness in not persevering in the resolutions I so often avowed but failed to carry out. Help me, Lord Jesus, not to sadden Your divine Heart again. I promise to amend my life and to seek the intercession of the ever-Virgin Mary, Your Mother, whom You gave us for our Mother from the Cross. Amen.

Prayers to Our Blessed Mother. Immaculate Mother of the Child Jesus, sweetest Virgin Mary, our Mother, deign to present our supplications to your divine Son. We who are sinners do not deserve to be heard, but you, who are the Refuge of Sinners and Mother of Mercy, have never sent away those who seek your maternal protection. Always full of tenderness and clemency, you comfort the afflicted.

You are the Universal Mediatrix of all Graces. Your prayers to the divine Child are always heard because in you there was never a stain of sin. Take pity on us who are sinners, and for the love which you bear the divine Child, obtain from His divine Heart the graces we need. Mother of God pray for us poor exiled children; look down on us with your eyes of mercy and keep us ever close to your Immaculate Heart. Amen.

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope; to thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile show unto us the blessed. Fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray: Almighty, everlasting God, Who, by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit Prepared the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mother, Mary, to become the fit habitation of Your Son, grant that we who now rejoice in her commemoration may, by her gracious intercession, be delivered from all the evils that threaten us, and from everlasting death, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Petitions (after each of the five petitions, recite one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be...).
Jesus, compassionate and merciful Child, hear my prayers and remedy my affliction.
Sweetest Hope of those who suffer, I place my sorrows before Your Sacred Heart.
Secure Refuge of the Needy, at Your divine feet I shed the tears of my afflicted heart.
Universal Consoler, Who in Your untiring mercy welcome us sinners who have recourse to You, have mercy and hear me.
Health of our souls, Divine Healer, do not despise my supplications, but grant me the graces I implore. Back to Contents

O Holy Infant Jesus of Good Health, I hope in the boundless mercy You show to those who humbly look up to You for pity. Mercifully hear my petitions and grant me the favor of Your kind help.

O Holy Infant Jesus of Good Health, I love You with all my heart. I entrust and consecrate myself to your most loving Heart. Do hear my plea, I implore You, and mercifully extend to me Your helping Hand. (Our Father Hail Mary, Glory be)

Prayer. O most amiable Child Jesus. You Who said: "Ask and you shall receive," graciously hear my petition and grant me the favor I ask of You, if it be for Your greater honor and glory and for the good of my soul. Amen.

Ejaculations. My Jesus, Mercy! Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me! Lord Jesus Christ, deliver me from all my iniquities and from every evil! Grant that I may ever hold fast to Your Commandments and never let me be separated from You. Back to Contents

For love of us You took upon Yourself the fragility of our human flesh to save as from the slavery of sin and Satan. With confidence in Your loving goodness I utter Your own words in the Garden of Agony: "Lord, take this chalice away from me, yet not my will but Thine be done!"

You Who promised the Kingdom to the little ones, look upon one as little as me and turn my sorrows to tears of joy so that I may be all the more free to grow in Your loving friendship, which I pray I may have the happiness of enjoying eternally in Heaven. Amen.

First Day Prayer. Most loving Infant Jesus of Good Health, to Your compassionate Heart I confide my needs and my sorrows. You Who calmed the sea and the tempest, can also calm the anxieties of a troubled soul. You, Who are more desirous of my happiness than I ever could be myself, will know what is best for my happiness now and hereafter. If the favors I ask are not expedient for my soul's salvation, You will know how best to enable me to take up my cross beside You. Even now I feel an unspeakable joy within the depths of my soul that tells me You are graciously inclined to hear my pleas, even if not in the way I ask. Do accept, adorable Infant Jesus, from my grateful heart, the raptures of my profoundest gratitude. Amen. (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be)

Second Day Prayer. Most merciful Infant Jesus of Good Health, to You I offer the feeble comfort of my loving sympathy in the sadness Your Heart must feel over our coldness and blindness. Mercifully grant that I may offend You less and love You more and be more worthy of Your comforting help in my afflictions of body and soul. You, Who suffered already from Your Baby Infancy in Bethlehem and in the Circumcision and the Flight into Egypt, will well understand the pleadings of a suppliant heart that knows no other saving Refuge but You! If it be Your holy Will, do grant me the blessings of health so that, with the chalice taken away or newly consecrated, I may serve You with a clean and pure body and soul on the sure road of happiness that leads to Your welcoming embrace at the gates of Paradise. Amen. (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be)

Third Day Prayer. Most sovereign Infant Jesus of Good Health, to You I come like a penitent, sinful and sorrowful, but also like the sick and the lame who cried to You for mercy! For love of You I place the burden of my trials and sorrows upon the paten with the priest at the altar, offering them together with Your own precious Soul and Body for the glory of the Father and the Divine Majesty. There is such power in Your sweet name of Jesus and such tenderness in Your Infant Heart that I feel sure of every relief and cure, if You judge it to be beneficial for my present and my eternal health. No matter what designs You may have for me, dear Infant Jesus, I gladly submit myself to them with all my heart, for though Your ways are unsearchable, You always plan what is best for me in time and in eternity. Amen. (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be)

Prayer to Jesus' Mother (say each day). Dear Mary, Mother of the Holy Infant, to you I plead to speak for me to your loving Child Whom we honor under the title of "Infant Jesus of Good Health." As you became His Mother in Bethlehem, you became also my Mother at the foot of the Cross of Calvary. As your heart grieved to see Him writhing in the agony of the Cross, so also look with pity upon me now when the cross of suffering seems to be more than I can bear. Regard not my sins, for I am resolved to grow like you in loving Jesus and keeping His every word and Commandment. Dear Mother of mine, do show your tender mercy for a repentant sinner who awaits only a favorable word of motherly benediction. With confidence I leave all in your hands, dear Mary, knowing that you will not despise my petitions but will speak lovingly to Jesus for me for the needs of this body and soul of mine. Amen. (3 Hail Marys, 1 Hail HolyQueen) Back to Contents

O Infant Jesus, God of the Impossible, through the joy You felt when Your Mother Mary placed You in her arms for the first time, give an answer to this petition- please.

O Infant Jesus, Almighty and ever-giving God, through the joy you felt when the humble shepherds came to adore You, please bring me joy too, by hearing this, my own humble plea-

O Infant Jesus, compassionate and serene, through Your joy when the kings came to pay You homage and brought You gifts, please give me this needed gift- O Infant Jesus, Giver of all we need, through the joy You felt when Joseph, Your caring foster father, fled to Egypt with You and Your mother, hasten to find an answer to this cause of mine -

O Infant Jesus, all-good and all-knowing God, through the joy You experienced when You were saved from the slaughter of the Innocents so that you could save mankind, bring joy to me by granting me -

Let us pray: O Jesus, through Your Birth and Infancy, You brought joy to the world! Since then You have never failed to spread that joy which was Yours. Your joy for others is an everlasting and constant gift, one in which I hope to obtain a share...through the merits of your Holy Infancy. Amen. Back to Contents

On the large beads, say:
Mary, Mother of the Holy Infant Jesus of Good Health, show that you are my Mother.

On the small beads, say:
O Holy Infant Jesus of Good Health, I love You. Show Your love for me by granting my requests.

In conclusion, say:
Holy Infant of Good Health, I place my requests into Your almighty hands and ask Your blessing confident that whatever You bless will bear immediate results. Amen. Back to Contents

Let us pray: O Jesus, the Holy Infant of Good Health, by taking on the burden of suffering and dying for us, You showed the extent of Your love. Now, as we salute You and adore You as the Holy Infant of Good Health, we know Your might is not lessened, but is omnipotent and almighty in giving us what we ask of Your Infant Heart. Amen. Back to Contents

Even in Your childhood You knowingly gave us the example of obedience. You Who are God, obeyed Your divine Father through the laws of nature and the authority of Your human mother, Mary, and human foster father, Joseph.

Even in Your childhood, You knowingly gave us the example of poverty. You Who are God, were born in time, in a humble cave. You grew up without material riches. In poverty, You lived, and in poverty, You died.

Even in Your childhood, You knowingly gave us the example of family unity, in a world created for the same unity of our humanity, accepting obedience despite people's division.

What incomparable and spontaneous love were shown in Your Divinity: to all appearances a baby boy wrapped in cloth; in reality, the Savior and supreme King of humanity! We return Your love with our adoration, gratitude and praise. We love, honor and thank You, Child Jesus, the Author of our spiritual and physical well-being, our Life, our Good Health, our Glory! In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Back to Contents

Choir 1: O Child Jesus of Good Health, we believe in the infinite kindness of Your Heart.

All: Increase our faith.

Choir 2: O Child Jesus of Good Health, we hope in Your limitless mercy which You have for those who call upon You.

All: Increase our hope.

Choir 1: O Child Jesus of Good Health, we love You with all our heart.

All: Increase our charity.

Let us pray. God our Father, Who loved us so much that You sent Your only Son, Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, for our salvation and to lead us to You, open our hearts so that we know how to receive Jesus with happiness, to do always what He wants us to do. We ask You this in the name of Jesus, Your beloved Son, Who comes to give health to the world. He lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.

Pr: We praise the Child Jesus of Good Health.

All: We praise Him now and forever. :

Pr: Child Jesus of Good Health.

All: Bless us. Back to Contents

No colic is so painful, no fever so violent, no malady so dangerous, no peril so great, no tumor so malignant, no insanity so raving, no complaint so irritating, no assault of Satan so furious, no pestilence so infectious, no swelling so serious, as not to be dispelled or cured by this blessed Child. The Holy Child puts an end to enmities, frees prisoners, saves those who are condemned to death, brings obstinate sinners to repentance and blesses childless parents with offspring. In short, He is become all to all. - Author Unknown