St. Gerard Majella Annual Novena

The Solemn Novena to St. Gerard Majella is held over 9 days in St. Joseph's Redemptorist Church, Dundalk, Ireland.

He was accepted as a Redemptorist lay brother serving his congregation as sacristan, gardener, ostiarius, infirmarian, and tailor.

St. Joseph's Parish Church, a Redemptorist House in Dundalk, welcomes thousands of people from all over Ireland to the Annual Festival of Faith in Honour of St. Gerard Majella.

The people of Dundalk took St. Gerard into their hearts after this sermon and continued to pay devotion to him on a regular basis.

The annual novena sees more than 10,000 people from across the Dundalk area, and from counties Down, Armagh, Cavan, Monaghan, and Meath make the daily journey to the Redemptorist Church.

As St. Gerard Majella is patron of expecting mothers, the novena is also a yearly pilgrimage for many women and couples hoping to welcome children into the lives.

Due to the increasing numbers attending the Novena each year extra seating is added to the hallways, monastery rooms, side altars and the parish hall, where each session is shown live on large television screens.

Today, through St. Gerard's powerful intercession, you continue to show your love for all those who place their trust in you.

From earth's sorrow, from life's tearland, High above the clouds we gaze, Where enthroned in starlike glory, Reigns today the saint we praise.