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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 30091 [post_author] => 43 [post_date] => 2024-06-22 16:02:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-06-22 16:02:00 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">New Year’s is a day of new beginnings, goals, celebrations, and reflections. And it’s also one of the most special days in the Church – the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. One week after we celebrate the birth of Christ, we give thanks to His mother. This solemnity is also the final day in the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/schedule-catholic-christmas-season-octave/">Octave of Christmas</a> and the <a href="https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/war-and-peace/world-day-of-peace#:~:text=January%201%20is%20the%20World,important%20work%20of%20building%20peace.">World Day of Peace</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Jesus is a way that can be travelled, open to everyone. He is the path of peace. Today the Virgin Mary points him out to us, she shows us the Way: let us walk in it! And you, Holy Mother of God, accompany us with your protection. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 2012</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#History-Church-Teaching">History &amp; Church Teaching</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Mass-Holy-Day-of-Obligation">Mass Readings - Holy Day of Obligation&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Solemnity-of-Mary-Prayers">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Commonly-Asked-Questions">Commonly-Asked Questions</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#Related-Guides">Related Guides</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="History-Church-Teaching"><br>History &amp; Church Teaching</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Throughout history, there have been many <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/solemnity-of-mary-mother-of-god-5826">movements</a> to establish a feast honoring Mary as the Mother of God and Mother of the Church. However, this solemnity only became an official one in the 20th century.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On February 2, 1974, Pope Paul VI <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html">encouraged</a> the restoration of the Solemnity of Mary, the holy Mother of God, in his apostolic exhortation <a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html">Marialis Cultus</a>:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“In the revised ordering of the Christmas period it seems to us that the attention of all should be directed towards the restored Solemnity of Mary the holy Mother of God. This celebration, placed on January 1 in conformity with the ancient indication of the liturgy of the City of Rome, is meant to commemorate the part played by Mary in this mystery of salvation.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He stated the complementary nature of the three solemnities which celebrate Mary:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:table {"hasFixedLayout":false,"className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-church-teaching-prayers/"><em>Immaculate Conception</em></a></td><td><em>“Recognize the beginning of the Church, the spotless Bride of Christ”</em><br></td></tr><tr><td><em>Assumption</em></td><td><em>“Recognize the beginning that has already been made and the image of what, for the whole Church, must still come to pass”</em><br></td></tr><tr><td><em>Mary, Mother of God</em></td><td><em>“She is the Mother of the Head and of the members - the holy Mother of God and therefore the provident Mother of the Church”</em><br></td></tr></tbody></table></figure> <!-- /wp:table --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Source: <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html">Marialis Cultus</a>, Pope Paul VI</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">All three solemnities are essential to the Church’s understanding and admiration of Mary. The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, presents us with a unique way of starting the new year. Just after the birth of Christ, we enter the new year accompanied by Mary, the Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Prince of Peace.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Mass-Holy-Day-of-Obligation">Mass Readings 2025 - Holy Day of Obligation </h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">First reading from the Book of Numbers</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the Israelites: You shall say to them,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>The Lord bless you and keep you;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>So they shall put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them. </em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nm+6%3A22-27&amp;version=NRSVCE">(Numbers 6:22-27)</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,</em></strong><em> to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God. </em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gal+4%3A4-7&amp;version=NRSVCE">(Galatians 4:4-7)</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Gospel according to Luke&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. </em><strong><em>But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.</em></strong><em> The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.</em> <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010123.cfm">(Luke 2:16-21)</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Francis offered a beautiful reflection on this Gospel reading in 2022,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I ask, brothers and sisters, how do we make this passage, how do we surmount this clash between the ideal and the real? By doing exactly what Mary did: by keeping and by pondering. First, Mary “keeps”, that is she holds on to what happens; she does not forget or reject it. She keeps in her heart everything that she saw and heard.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The beautiful things, like those spoken to her by the angel and the shepherds, but also the troubling things: the danger of being found pregnant before marriage and, now, the lowly stable where she has had to give birth. <strong>That is what Mary does. She does not pick and choose; she keeps. She accepts life as it comes, without trying to camouflage or embellish it; she keeps those things in her heart.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Pope Francis</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This reflection from Pope Francis reminds me of a particular quote from St. Thomas Aquinas: <em>“As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">By keeping Mary in our hearts, we might be guided by Her love of Christ as we navigate the sea of life, whether turbulent or calm. As we pray in the Ave Maris Stella prayer, <em>“Hail, O Star of the ocean, God’s own Mother blest, ever sinless Virgin, gate of heav’nly rest.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/marymotherofgod">Reflect with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Solemnity-of-Mary-Prayers">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Prayers</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-collect-prayer-for-the-solemnity-of-mary-2023">Collect Prayer for the Solemnity of Mary 2023</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“O God, who through the fruitful virginity of Blessed Mary bestowed on the human race the grace of eternal salvation, grant, we pray, that we may experience the intercession of her, through whom we were found worthy to receive the author of life, our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.”&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Source: <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture//liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2023-01-01">Catholic Culture</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Prayer from Pope Francis, Holy Mass on the Solemnity in 2022</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“At the beginning of the New Year, then, let us place ourselves under the protection of this woman, the Mother of God, who is also our mother. May she help us to keep and ponder all things, unafraid of trials and with the joyful certainty that the Lord is faithful and can transform every cross into a resurrection. Today too, let us call upon her as did the People of God at Ephesus. Let us stand and, facing Our Lady as did the people of God in Ephesus, let us together repeat three times her title of Mother of God: 'Holy Mother of God, Holy Mother of God, Holy Mother of God!' Amen.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Source: <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2022/documents/20220101_omelia-madredidio-pace.html#:~:text=Holy%20Mass%20on%20the%20Solemnity,(1st%20January%202022)%20%7C%20Francis&amp;text=The%20shepherds%20found%20%E2%80%9CMary%20and,v.">Vatican Archives</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Short prayers for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">The Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Dear Lord, help me look to Mary as my guide in navigating this life's many ups and downs. Help me seek her peace such that I may rest with You.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Mary, please accompany me in my journey to your Son, Jesus. Wrap me in your <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">mantle</a> and give me the strength to seek Him in all I do.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/marymotherofgod">Pray with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="Commonly-Asked-Questions">Commonly Asked Questions about the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>What is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God?</strong> The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, falls on New Year’s Day; it celebrates Mary as the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of the Church.&nbsp;<br><br>Though there are many other solemnities in the Church (read the next question), this holy day is often shortened to “the Solemnity,” even though there are five other solemnities in the Church. As Pope Francis <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2022/documents/20220101_omelia-madredidio-pace.html#:~:text=Holy%20Mass%20on%20the%20Solemnity,(1st%20January%202022)%20%7C%20Francis&amp;text=The%20shepherds%20found%20%E2%80%9CMary%20and,v.">said</a> in his 2022 homily on this day, “The New Year begins under the sign of the Holy Mother of God, under the sign of the Mother. A mother’s gaze is the path to rebirth and growth.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Is a solemnity the same as a feast?</strong> Yes, and no. Solemnities are special feasts – those greatly important to the Church and theology. All Sundays and holy days of obligation are <a href="https://catholicstraightanswers.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-solemnity-a-feast-and-a-memorial/">solemnities</a>, though not all solemnities are holy days of obligation.&nbsp;<br><br>Other holy days of obligation include the Nativity of Jesus (December 25), the Immaculate Conception of Mary (December 8), the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-ascension-of-the-lord/">Solemnity of the Ascension of Christ</a> (Thursday of the sixth week of Easter), the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary (August 15), and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/all-saints-day-faq-origin-celebrations-and-prayers/">All Saints’ Day</a> (November 1).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>When is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God?</strong> The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, is celebrated on January 1 (<a href="https://hallow.com/blog/new-years-prayers/">New Year’s Day</a>) every year. In 2025, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, falls on a Wednesday.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, a holy day of obligation?</strong> Yes, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, is a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-days-of-obligation/">holy day of obligation</a>. The Church encourages all Catholics, who are able, to attend Mass on the Solemnity. The <a href="https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/canon-law/complementary-norms/canon-1246">USCCB</a> allows two exceptions, however: when the Solemnity falls on a Saturday or Monday, “the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.” Most likely, in years when the Solemnity falls on one of these days, your parish will celebrate the Solemnity the Sunday before; that day is New Year’s Eve this year. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>How is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, celebrated?</strong> A holy day of obligation, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, is most commonly celebrated with Mass. On this day, we celebrate Mary as the Mother of Jesus.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/marymotherofgod">Download Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p id="Related-Guides" class=""><strong>Related Guides</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-the-immaculate-conception-church-teaching-prayers/">Immaculate Conception of Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-prayers-celebrations/">Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-marian-consecration/">Marian Consecration</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/immaculate-heart-of-mary/">Immaculate Heart of Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 2025 - Church Teaching, Mass Readings, Prayers [post_excerpt] => One week after we celebrate the birth of Christ, we give thanks to His mother on the Solemnity. 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 60595 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2024-06-13 19:38:14 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-06-13 19:38:14 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>No. 1 prayer app teams up with world’s premier lay Catholic men’s organization for new guided meditation</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>New Haven, Conn.</strong>, <strong>June 13, 2024</strong> — The Knights of Columbus announced today a novena — nine days of prayer — to St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of Fathers, Cornerstone of Families, and Guardian of the Universal Church, to coincide with Father’s Day. The novena is narrated by Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly and is available exclusively on the <a href="https://hallow.com/"><em>Hallow</em> app</a>. The novena will launch on Sunday, June 16, and conclude on Monday, June 24. It will then be permanently available on the <em>Hallow</em> app so the faithful may prayerfully reflect on St. Joseph and ask for his intercession in our lives throughout the year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“On the day I was installed as Supreme Knight, I dedicated my leadership of the Knights of Columbus to St. Joseph.&nbsp;I turn to him every day, because his life embodied prayer, obedience and courage,” said Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly. “St. Joseph was a man of faith who listened carefully to the Lord, and never backed away from difficulty. He is often considered the silent, humble witness of the Bible. That’s why the Knights are excited to partner with Hallow to develop this novena, so even more people can build a prayerful devotion to St. Joseph.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“The Knights of Columbus has been supporting families and nourishing the faith lives of millions for more than a century,” said Alessandro DiSanto, Hallow co-founder. “As a husband, father, and fellow Knight myself, collaborating with the Knights of Columbus on this novena to St. Joseph, the patron saint of families, is a tremendous privilege.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Knights of Columbus has also produced a documentary titled <em>St. Joseph: Our Spiritual Father</em>, as well as numerous resources on St. Joseph, all of which can be accessed <a href="https://www.kofc.org/en/campaigns/stjoseph-media.html">here</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About Hallow</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow helps people deepen their relationship with God through audio-guided prayers, sleep meditations, Bible readings, meditations, and music. The app has more than 10,000 sessions including a Daily Rosary, Daily Gospel, Daily Saint, Novenas, Examens, Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year, The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie’s audio Bible, Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons, peaceful Christian music, Gregorian chant, and so much more. Launched in December 2018, Hallow is now the #1 Catholic app in the world and has been downloaded 19 million times and used to pray more than 500 million times across 150-plus countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>About the Knights of Columbus</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1882, Blessed Michael McGivney, a young parish priest in New Haven, Connecticut, founded the Knights of Columbus to serve the needs of a largely immigrant Catholic community. What began as a small fraternal benefit society has since grown into the world’s premier lay Catholic men’s organization, with more than 2.1 million members in over 16,800 local councils. As members of one of the world’s leading international charitable organizations, Knights around the world donated approximately 50 million service hours and nearly $185 million for worthy causes in their communities in 2022. The Knights of Columbus also offers a range of life insurance products to members and their families and was named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Insurance Companies 2024 in the permanent life insurance category. Knights of Columbus Insurance currently has more than $123 billion* of life insurance in force. In addition, the organization offers investment services in accord with Catholic social teaching through its wholly owned subsidiary, Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors, which holds more than $27 billion** in assets under management. Based on the founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity, the Knights of Columbus is committed to strengthening Catholic families and parishes, and to practicing faith in action through service to all in need. To learn more or to join the Knights of Columbus, please visit <a href="https://kofc.org/join">kofc.org/join</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">*As of December 31, 2023</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">**As of December 31, 2023</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center">###<strong></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> [post_title] => Knights of Columbus Announces Novena to St. Joseph, Available Exclusively on the Hallow App and Narrated by Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => knights-of-columbus-announces-novena-to-st-joseph-on-hallow [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-06-13 19:38:17 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-06-13 19:38:17 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=60595 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 60351 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-06-07 21:32:55 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-06-07 21:32:55 [post_content] => <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-immaculate-heart-of-mary-table-of-contents">Immaculate Heart of Mary: Table of Contents</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Click any link below to jump to any particular section:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#bible">Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Bible</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#john-eudes">Immaculate Heart and St. John Eudes</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#sacred-heart-of-jesus">Immaculate Heart of Mary and Jesus’s Sacred Heart</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#sorroful">Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#fatima">Mary’s Heart and Fatima</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#today">Immaculate Heart of Mary Today</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#litany">Litany to Immaculate Heart of Mary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Immaculate Heart of Mary refers to Mary’s interior heart, which remained sinless and devoted to God despite the challenges and sorrows she encountered on earth.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Paul VI <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19670513_signum-magnum.html">called it</a> “the model of perfect love toward God and toward our fellow beings.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is not even technically a feast but rather a <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/0620-memorial-immaculate-heart.cfm">memorial</a> that takes place immediately following the Feast of the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart</a>, a devotion to which the Immaculate Heart is closely associated.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Devotion to the Immaculate Heart is a very old tradition inside the Church, and is intertwined with other key moments in the Church’s history, such as the appearances of Mary at Fatima.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Learn all about the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the prayers associated with it and why it’s such an important part of the faith lives of so many. It all begins with references, both overt and more subtle, to Mary’s heart in Scripture.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="bible">Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Bible</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">No explicit references to the concept of the Immaculate Heart of Mary exist in the Old Testament, though popes and early church fathers point to Song of Songs (sometimes called “Canticle of Canticles”) as clear references to Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One alone is my dove, my perfect one, her mother’s special one, favorite of the one who bore her. Daughters see her and call her happy, queens and concubines, and they praise her: “Who is this that comes forth like the dawn, beautiful as the white moon, pure as the blazing sun, fearsome as celestial visions?” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Song of Songs 6:9-10</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Beholding_Beauty.html?id=QjbcEAAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&amp;q=immaculate%20heart&amp;f=false">According to the book</a> <em>Beholding Beauty: Mary and the Song of Songs</em>, "Medieval commentators regarded Mary as the fulfillment of the figure of the bridge throughout the entire Song of Songs."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The New Testament, specifically the second chapter of Luke’s Gospel, mentions Mary’s heart specifically.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. 19 And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.” (Luke 2: 18-19)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart." (Luke 2:51)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/immaculateheartofmary">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="john-eudes">St. John Eudes and the Immaculate Heart</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While devotional practices existed in the centuries before him, from the likes of <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/francis-de-sales/">St. Francis de Sales</a> and others, a 17th century French priest St. John Eudes was a major proponent of the devotion to Mary’s Immaculate Heart who helped make it the recognizable feast it is today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">John F. Murphy <a href="https://archive.org/details/marysimmaculateh013481mbp/page/n43/mode/2up?q=Eudes">calls Eudes</a> “the most ardent advocate” of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He worked to locally to gain recognition for the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and later, Pope Clement X issued papal bulls expressing approval for devotion to the “Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 1805, Pope Pius VII gave approval for a “Feast to the Most Pure Heart of Mary” to dioceses that requested it.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the 200+ years that have followed, Catholic dioceses and schools have taken up the Immaculate Heart of Mary as their patron.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pope Pius XII instituted the Immaculate Heart of Mary feast <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/devotion-to-the-hearts-of-jesus-and-mary-its-origin-and-history-13690">in 1945</a>. In <em>Calendarium Romanum </em>(1969), Pope Pius VI moved the observation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to “Sabbato post dominicam secundam post Pentecosten,” Latin for “the Saturday after the second Sunday after Pentecost.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This allows the memorial to immediately follow the feast of the Sacred Heart, to which the Immaculate Heart of Mary is closely linked.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="sacred-heart-of-jesus">Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Just as apparitions of Jesus prompted St. Margaret Mary’s work to promote devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, they stirred a desire in Belgian nun Berthe Petit to promote a devotion to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary in the late 19th century.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s just one parallel between Jesus’s heart and Mary’s heart that links these two popular devotions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/55427/the-immaculate-heart-of-mary">As Catholic News Agency explains</a>, the devotion to Jesus’s heart emphasizes His heart full of love for mankind, while Mary’s heart, immaculate and sinless, is the perfect model for loving Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“That is, although the act of consecration is ultimately addressed to God, it is an act that is made through Mary.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Therefore, consecrating oneself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a complete devotion of oneself to God. Mary’s Immaculate Heart relies on Jesus's Sacred Heart and is <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/55427/the-immaculate-heart-of-mary">“subordinate</a>” to it.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/immaculateheartofmary">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="sorrowful">Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and Consecration</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Petit worked with a priest, Fr. Louis Decorsant, to share and communicate her visions to Rome and to grow the devotion to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The devotion is similar, though separate. Whereas the Immaculate Heart of Mary depicts Mary’s heart radiant and with a ring of roses, the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary is often depicted with seven swords, similar to the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">According to <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Divine_Love_Or_Berthe_Petit/P8V0V8m0dbYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=margaret%20mary">this book</a> dedicated to Petit’s life, Jesus told Petit in one of his apparitions to her, "The world must be consecrated to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother as it is to Mine. Fear nothing, no matter what obstacle or suffering you may encounter; your only object must be the accomplishment of My Will."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In one of these apparitions, she reportedly saw the hearts of Mary and Jesus entwined.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A consecration to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary was offered in 1919, following the end of World War I, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sorrowful_and_Immaculate_Heart_of_Ma/XO9i9331UyoC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=lord%20jesus">with the following text</a>:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Lord Jesus, King of kings, many of us never ceased to place full confidence in Your Divine Heart during the long trial of war. Many, likewise, have implored the help of Your Mother, and we wish to show our gratitude by consecrating ourselves to Her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>It is fitting that we should honor this Sorrowful Heart by special veneration. For Your Mother, O Lord, acquired this title when She shared Your Passion and thus co-operated in the work of our Redemption; a just title which we believe to be dear to Your Heart, and to Her Heart pierced with the wound of Yours.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>We, therefore, O Blessed Mother, consecrate to Your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, our persons, our families and our country. We beseech You to come to our help as a Mother.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Behold the trials that oppress us, the menace of evil and the dangers that surround us. We beseech You to obtain for us from Your Divine Son, solace in suffering, social unity between classes and the preservation of peace.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>May the reign of the Sacred Heart, a reign of justice and love, be extended throughout our dear country, and may Your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, loved and invoked, reign over us also, O Blessed Mother, and ever obtain for us the mercy and blessing of God.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="fatima">Immaculate Heart of Mary and Fatima</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Immaculate Heart of Mary has also been made known through <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/our-lady-of-fatima/">Our Lady of Fatima</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the second apparition of Mary in 1916, <a href="https://americaneedsfatima.org/articles/the-immaculate-heart-of-mary-core-of-the-fatima-message">she told</a> Lucia, “Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. To those who accept it, I promise salvation and those souls will be loved by God as flowers I have placed to embellish His Throne.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lucia later became a nun who was devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, even taking on the name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She beautifully explained the connection between the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, likening Mary’s heart to a tabernacle inside of which the Father placed Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“It was in this Heart that the Father placed His Son, as if in the first Tabernacle,” <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/sister-lucia-explains-devotion-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary-is-a-must">she said</a>. “It was the Blood of Her Immaculate Heart which communicated to the Son of God His Life and His human nature, from which we all, in turn receive ‘grace upon grace’ (John 1:16).”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/immaculateheartofmary">Pray Novenas with Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="today">Immaculate Heart of Mary Today</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Immaculate Heart of Mary remains an important devotion to many, as it leads us to God through Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the spring of 2022, at the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis called for an Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“This Act of Consecration is meant to be a gesture of the universal Church, which in this dramatic moment lifts up to God, through his Mother and ours, the cry of pain of all those who suffer and implore an end to the violence, and to entrust the future of our human family to the Queen of Peace,” <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/03/23/220323a.html">he said</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Consecration prayer <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/03/23/220323b.html">closes</a> with beautiful words entrusting the troubles of today to Our Lady.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Through your intercession, may God’s mercy be poured out on the earth and the gentle rhythm of peace return to mark our days. Our Lady of the ‘Fiat’, on whom the Holy Spirit descended, restore among us the harmony that comes from God. May you, our ‘living fountain of hope’, water the dryness of our hearts. In your womb Jesus took flesh; help us to foster the growth of communion. You once trod the streets of our world; lead us now on the paths of peace. Amen.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="litany">Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Draw closer to God through Mary by praying a Litany of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This version comes from St. John Henry Newman, <a href="https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/l/litany-of-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary.php">via the University of Dayton</a>:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lord, have mercy,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Lord, have mercy.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christ, have mercy,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Christ, have mercy.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lord, have mercy,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Lord, have mercy.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christ, hear us,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Christ, graciously hear us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God the Father of Heaven,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Have mercy on us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God the Son, redeemer of the world,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Have mercy on us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God the Holy Spirit,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Have mercy on us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holy Trinity, one God,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Have mercy on us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Response to the following: <strong>Pray for us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, after God's own Heart</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, in union with the Heart of Jesus</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, the vessel of the Holy Spirit</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, shrine of the Trinity</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, home of the Word</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, immaculate in your creation</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, flooded with grace</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, blessed of all hearts</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, Throne of glory</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, Abyss of humbleness,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, Victim of love</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, nailed to the cross</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, comfort of the sad</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, refuge of the sinner</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, hope of the dying</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Heart of Mary, seat of mercy</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Spare us, O Lord.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Graciously hear us, O Lord.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Have mercy on us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christ, hear us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>Christ, graciously hear us.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lord, have mercy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christ, have mercy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lord, have mercy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Immaculate Mary, meek and humble of heart.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Conform our hearts to the heart of Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 10682 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-06-01 14:00:06 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-06-01 14:00:06 [post_content] => <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Table of Contents</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#finding-time">Finding Time to Pray</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-eve-prayer">Christmas Eve Prayer</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#st-andrews-novena">St. Andrew's Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-day-prayer">Christmas Prayer</a><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-prayers-popes">Prayers from popes</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#short-christmas-prayers">Short Christmas prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-blessings">Christmas Blessings</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-dinner-prayer">Christmas Dinner Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-music">Christmas Music</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#christmas-prayer-faq">Christmas Prayer FAQ</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p id="intro" class=""><em>The Incarnation changes everything.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At the root of the holiday season, sometimes buried beneath the well-intentioned array of lights, decorations and wrapping paper, remains the single transformational moment that we celebrate.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Jesus being born.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God entering our world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">That night in Bethlehem, in a humble manger, remains so awe-inspiring, that it’s difficult to imagine it ever being forgotten or overlooked during the holidays.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And then our calendars begin to fill up.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Holiday parties. School concerts. Cookie baking. Card writing.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It’s not uncommon for Catholics who appreciate and embrace the “reason for the season” to get swept up into the trappings of Christmastime.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">And no days are busier than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong><em>Read More: </em></strong><em><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/schedule-catholic-christmas-season-octave/">The Schedule of the Catholic Christmas Season 2024</a></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="finding-time">Finding Time to Pray on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Even if you’ve remained devoted to prayer throughout Advent, when December 24 and 25 arrive, it can be difficult to find time to spend with God on Christmas.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This feels especially true when attending a Christmas Eve Mass, which seems to become more popular each year, particularly for families with young children. Once Mass is checked off the proverbial holiday To Do list by attending a late afternoon liturgy on Christmas Eve, there’s nothing standing in the way of the full pageantry of the festivities.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas morning gifts. Phone calls with family. The scramble to find just the right batteries for the new toy that Santa left. And with any luck, a nap.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Missing from the list? Christmas prayer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">By 4 p.m. on Christmas Day, it can feel like an eternity has passed since the Mass on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But it doesn’t have to be that way.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It <em>shouldn’t</em> be that way. The Incarnation is too important to remain on the sidelines once everyone piles into the car to head home from church.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are small ways and simple prayers to help keep the true meaning of Christmas at the center of your holiday celebration on Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve <em>Eve</em>, and Christmas Day itself.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-eve-prayer">Christmas Eve Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christmas Eve is filled with anticipation. And distractions. A simple prayer before bed can be a nice way to close the day, refocus on the birth of Jesus and connect the day that’s passed with the big upcoming celebration come morning.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Christmas Eve prayer attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish poet and author from the 19^th century, remains a popular choice:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Loving Father,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Help us remember the birth of Jesus,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>that we may share in the song of the angels,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>the gladness of the shepherds,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and worship of the wise men.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Close the door of hate</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and open the door of love all over the world.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Let kindness come with every gift</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and good desires with every greeting.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Deliver us from evil by the blessing</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>which Christ brings,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>May the Christmas morning</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>make us happy to be thy children,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>and Christmas evening bring us to our beds</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>with grateful thoughts,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>forgiving and forgiven,</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>for Jesus' sake.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Other, more simple Christmas Eve prayers also capture the significance of the occasion:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, we thank You for this day and the many blessings You’ve given us. Grant us a restful night of sleep as we await the celebration of the birth of Your Son, Jesus. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Dear God, we know that the greatest gift we have ever received is Jesus. May we remember that tomorrow, and may any presents under the tree remind us of our life’s biggest blessing. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">See our entire post dedicated to all types of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/christmas-eve-prayers-morning-short-sleep/">Christmas Eve prayers</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="st-andrews-novena">St. Andrew’s Novena (Christmas Anticipation Prayer)</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Another common prayer leading up to Christmas is the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-andrew-christmas-novena/">St. Andrew’s Novena</a>, also known as the Christmas Anticipation Prayer:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires (mention your intentions here), through the merits of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The St. Andrew’s Novena is available in the Hallow app now. Download the app and start praying!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center","orientation":"horizontal"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button {"backgroundColor":"black","className":"is-style-fill"} --> <div class="wp-block-button is-style-fill"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-black-background-color has-background wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/blogdownload">Pray St. Andrew's Novena</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are many other novenas that are relevant for the season of Advent, leading into Christmas. Learn more about the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-family-novena/">Holy Family Novena</a>, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-novena-to-st-nicholas/">St. Nicholas Novena</a>, and the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-anne-novena/">St. Anne Novena</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-day-prayer">Christmas Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">On Christmas morning, what’s more important than Santa entering our home is God entering our hearts.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Begin the day in Christmas prayer by considering spending time with Scripture.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Synoptic gospels of Matthew (1:18-25) and Luke (2:1-20) give us traditional accounts of the birth of Jesus. The first chapter of John’s gospel also portrays the powerful story of the Incarnation.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’re looking for a prayer to offer privately or to say with family to begin the day, consider the words given to us by current and former popes:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="christmas-prayers-popes"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“On this day of joy, we are all called to contemplate the Child Jesus, who gives hope once again to every person on the face of the earth. By his grace, let us with our voices and our actions give witness to solidarity and peace. Merry Christmas to all!” </em> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/urbi/documents/papa-francesco_20161225_urbi-et-orbi-natale.html">Pope Francis, Christmas 2016</a></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“The things of God can wait, we think and we say. And yet he is the most important thing, ultimately the one truly important thing. Why should we not also be moved by curiosity to see more closely and to know what God has said to us? At this hour, let us ask him to touch our hearts with the holy curiosity and the holy joy of the shepherds, and thus let us go over joyfully to Bethlehem, to the Lord who today once more comes to meet us. Amen.” </em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20121224_christmas.html">Pope Benedict XVI, Christmas 2012</a></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“And you, Mary, the Virgin of expectation and fulfilment, who hold the secret of Christmas, make us able to recognize in the Child whom you hold in your arms the heralded Saviour, who brings hope and peace to all. With you we worship him and trustingly say: we need You, Redeemer of man, You who know the hopes and fears of our hearts. Come and stay with us, Lord! May the joy of your Nativity reach to the farthest ends of the universe!”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/urbi/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_20031225_urbi.html">Pope John Paul II, Christmas 2003</a></cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p id="short-christmas-prayers" class="">Shorter Christmas prayers also help keep the sacredness of the day:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of Your Son, Jesus, whose entry into our world we celebrate today. Fill our hearts with the peace that only He provides. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Our hearts are on fire today with love of You, o Lord. As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we pray for the strength and courage to share the love that we feel today, tomorrow and each day, with those who need it most, helping to build Your kingdom here on earth. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“God, thank You for this day and for the love shared by all gathered here. We remain eternally grateful for the gift of Jesus into our world, and we pray that our eyes be opened to the ways in which He continues to be active in our lives, blessing us each and every day. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-blessings">Christmas Blessings</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Sometimes our most common prayers are the mini Christmas blessings we offer when we extend holiday greetings to friends and family.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In today’s modern Christmases, these blessings often take the form of a text or Facebook message. Indeed, technology can be extraordinarily helpful in sharing Christmas joy and drawing closer to God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The simple Christmas blessing of “Merry Christmas” is the most common way to offer a prayerful sentiment to someone at Christmas, whether done digitally or verbally.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Don’t feel restricted in how you can extend Christmas wishes to others. Additional ways to offer short Christmas blessings include:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Saying Merry Christmas in another language:</strong><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Feliz Navidad (Spanish)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Buon natale (Italian)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Feliz Natal (Portuguese)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wesołych Świąt (Polish)</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Focusing on the joy of the day</strong><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Wishing you a truly joyous Christmas”&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"May you enjoy a joy-filled day celebrating Jesus' birth"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"May God bless you on this beautiful Christmas Day"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Offering up your prayer for others</strong><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Be assured of my prayers for you and your family on this beautiful day”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Praying for you on this wonderful Christmas day!”&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Connecting with others who may not celebrate Christmas</strong><!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Thinking of you and hoping your day is filled with love and peace”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Best wishes to you and all of your loved ones on this special day”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The most important element to any Christmas blessing is the sincerity with which one offers it. The words matter less than your heart, and no one is likely to judge you if you go slightly off script or miss a word.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-dinner-prayer">Christmas Dinner Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christmas is similar to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/thanksgiving-prayer/">Thanksgiving</a> in that it’s customary to enjoy a large, once-a-year-type of a meal.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The food on the menu varies by culture, and in some traditions, <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/christmas-eve-mass/">Christmas Eve</a> is the night of the large dinner celebration (the Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes is a well-known example of this.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Whether your family prepares a feast on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or just enjoys a simple meal filled with fellowship, saying a prayer at dinner centers the gathering on the meaning of the occasion: the birth of Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Here are options for Christmas dinner prayers:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Dear God, we thank you for everyone gathered here this evening, for the food we will enjoy, and for the love we all share. We give thanks this day for the birth of our Savior. In His name we pray. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“Heavenly Father, bless this food and bless this meal. Since Jesus came into our world and delivered us salvation, we rejoice in the promise of salvation and pray that our fellowship today brings us deeper into communion with You. We ask this as we ask all things, through Christ, our Lord. amen.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>“God, recently, our days have been joy-filled yet busy. Occasionally, we get distracted from the true meaning of Christmas. As we gather here tonight, in this quiet moment, we feel your loving embrace. We are filled with gratitude for this meal, this fellowship, and all the blessings you give us. Amen.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-music">Christmas Music (Christian Christmas Songs)</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There’s an old Catholic saying: “To sing is to pray twice.” Usually, the phrase is used to encourage bashful churchgoers to lend their voice to the liturgy. However, it speaks to the very real idea of our ability to encounter God through song.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Christmas season has no shortage of dedicated music, performed by all sorts of musicians across different generations.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Not all Christmas music overtly references the actual meaning of Christmas. And that’s OK. It can be fun and catchy during a car ride or at a holiday party. But on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, more traditional Christian hymns better reflect the religious significance of the holiday.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Christmas music can also be a very convenient way to add worship to your day. Play it while you’re decorating presents, wrapping gifts, working in the kitchen or simply playing softly in the background on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">So this year, skip "Frosty the Snowman" and "Jingle Bells" and instead, enjoy some of the following Christian Christmas songs (both traditional and contemporary) whenever the occasion allows:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"Silent Night"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"O Holy Night"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"The First Nowell"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"Joy to the World"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>"Mary, Did You Know?"</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Hallow also offers 45 minutes of beautiful Christmas music instrumentals courtesy of Sean Beeson: </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2Xph2aaAw","type":"video","providerNameSlug":"youtube","responsive":true,"className":"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2Xph2aaAw </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">See Hallow's full breakdown on <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/christmas-music-traditional-religious/">traditional Christmas music</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="christmas-prayer-faq">Common Questions About Christmas Prayers and Blessings</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>What is a good Christmas prayer?</strong> Ultimately, a good Christmas prayer is any prayer that helps us draw closer to God amid the business of the holiday.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Is Christmas a Holy Day of Obligation?</strong> Yes. It’s great to pray at home during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but Catholics should attend Mass, too. Christmas Day (“the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ”) <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-days-of-obligation/">is a Holy Day of Obligation</a>. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>How do you say Merry Christmas or offer Christmas blessings to someone grieving?</strong> Acknowledge their loss and offer sincere, positive wishes. “I know you’ve been through a lot. Wishing you comfort and peace during this Christmas season.” Most importantly, don't ignore them altogether or gloss over their loss.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>How do you write Christmas wishes?</strong> The best advice for writing Christmas wishes is to be sincere in your sentiments without assuming to know if or how anyone else will (or won’t) be celebrating the holidays. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>What do you write in a Christmas card?</strong> After the salutation, simply extend your wishes of a joyous Christmas season to the recipient. The exact words matter less than the sentiment and thoughtfulness. </li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <h3 class="">Related Prayers</h3> <p><!-- /wp:heading --></p> <p><!-- wp:list --></p> <ul class=""> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/thanksgiving-prayer/">Thanksgiving Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/new-years-prayers/">Prayers for New Years</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">The Rosary</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">The Seven Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">The Lord's Prayer (Our Father)</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">The St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-mary-undoer-of-knots-novena/">Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena</a></li> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">Divine Mercy Novena</a></li> </ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --></p> <p><!-- wp:buttons {"contentJustification":"center"} --></p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center"><!-- wp:button {"backgroundColor":"black","className":"is-style-fill"} --></div> <p><!-- /wp:buttons --></p> <p><!-- wp:buttons {"contentJustification":"center"} --></p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center"><!-- wp:button --></div> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --></p> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link" href="https://hallow.app.link/blogdownload">Pray on Christmas with Hallow</a></div> <p><!-- /wp:button --></p> </div> <p><!-- /wp:buttons --></p> [post_title] => Christmas Prayers for 2024: Catholic Blessings and Prayers for Christmas [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => christmas-prayer-catholic-blessings [to_ping] => [pinged] => https://hallow.com/2021/11/24/thanksgiving-prayer/ https://hallow.com/2021/12/30/new-years-prayers/ [post_modified] => 2024-09-17 19:33:07 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-17 19:33:07 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=10682 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 59360 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-05-23 21:10:30 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-05-23 21:10:30 [post_content] => <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-anthony-novena-jump-to-a-day">St. Anthony Novena - Jump to a Day</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-1">Day 1</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-2">Day 2</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-3">Day 3</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-4">Day 4</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-5">Day 5</a>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-6">Day 6</a>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-7">Day 7</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-8">Day 8</a>&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-9">Day 9</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Born in Portugal in 1195, St. Anthony became a massively popular Franciscan friar who died in Padua, Italy, in 1231. He traveled extensively preaching the word of Christ in places like Morocco.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Despite living just 35 years, St. Anthony’s impact was far-reaching and significant. He was such a powerful preacher that he sometimes attracted crowds of <a href="https://www.atonementfriars.org/life-st-anthony-padua/">30,000 people</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He was also known as a great miracle worker, having more than <a href="https://www.stanthonyusa.com/saint-anthony-miracles/">a dozen miracles</a> associated with him, both during his time on earth and from heaven.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">To this day, countless Catholics ask for St. Anthony’s intercession, including most famously in moments when they’ve lost something or are looking for something, as well as through a St. Anthony novena.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-anthony-prayer">St. Anthony Prayer</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The simple St. Anthony prayer for a lost item has several variations but generally goes something like the following:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>“Dear St. Anthony, please come around. Something is lost, and it cannot be found.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">A more general prayer, <a href="https://stanthonyshrine.org/st-anthony/">courtesy of the St. Anthony Shrine</a>, is:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"<em>St. Anthony, perfect imitator of Jesus, who received from God the special power of restoring lost things, grant that I may find [name the item] which has been lost. At least restore to me peace and tranquility of mind, the loss of which has afflicted me even more than my material loss. To this favor, I ask another of you: that I may always remain in possession of the true good that is God. Let me rather lose all things than lose God, my supreme good. Let me never suffer the loss of my greatest treasure, eternal life with God. Amen.</em>"</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In advance of St. Anthony’s feast day on June 13, many people pray a novena to St. Anthony.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stanthonynovena">Pray Novenas on Hallow - Get the App</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-to-pray-the-st-anthony-novena">How to Pray the St. Anthony Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-novenas/">A novena</a> is a form of prayer that takes place over nine consecutive days, with its roots dating back to the disciples and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/pentecost/">Pentecost</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are different versions of a novena to St. Anthony, which has a long history in many countries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One review submitted to <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Review/No9UAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=St.+Anthony+novena&amp;pg=PA66&amp;printsec=frontcover">Fortnightly Review</a>, a Catholic publication that ran from the 1910s-1930s, shows the power of the St. Anthony Novena dating back a century:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">"I have wonderful results from my last two Novenas for the restoration of my health; and I hope our Blessed Mother and St. Anthony will finish the good work they have already started."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><cite>Testimonial, Fortnightly Review, 1926</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In this version of the St. Anthony novena, we focus each day on a different intention close to St. Anthony as we also seek the personal intention to which we dedicate the novena.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Thanks for praying with us for the next nine days!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-novena-to-st-anthony">Novena to St. Anthony</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-1">Day 1&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Begin in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today, and in a special way, as we begin this novena, give God thanks for the miracles, big and small, that He performed through you and the communion of saints, and pray that our eyes might be opened to God at work in my life.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">Our Father</a>…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-hail-mary/">Hail Mary</a>…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stanthonynovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-2">Day 2&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and lift up travelers–those currently making a journey, those whose work requires them to be away from home often, those making pilgrimages, those vacationing, and those commuting. Through your intercession, may God bless them and help them feel His presence on their journeys, accompanying them as Jesus did to the travelers on the road to Emmaus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-3">Day 3&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and lift up in a special way sailors, fishermen, and all of those whose work brings them out onto the water, helping to provide us food, transportations or safety. Through your intercession may God grant them peaceful waters, calming any storms just as Jesus did in the Sea of Galilee.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-4">Day 4</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and pray today especially for missionaries, those who leave the comforts of home, family and familiarity to spend time in strange or unfamiliar places in Your name, helping to spread the message of Your love for us and the salvation You offer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-5">Day 5&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and lift up in a special way priests, deacons, nuns and religious sisters. St. Anthony, pray that God may bless their ministries and help us to support their vocations. In parts of the world where they encounter hostility, we pray that God keep them safe. In parts of the world where they encounter indifference, grant them strength, courage and wisdom to set hearts ablaze for You. God, we ask you blessing in a special way on all Augistinians and Franciscans, two orders that St. Anthony served.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-6">Day 6&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today while we think especially of the elderly among us, those who have nurtured our faith, that they receive the respect, care and kindness they deserve.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-7">Day 7&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and lift up in a special way the poor among us. Pray, St. Anthony, for the least among us, those who lack the resources they need to thrive and those experiencing spiritual poverty. Pray that we may be instruments of God’s love here on earth, caring for our brothers and sisters in greatest need, and bringing the Light of Christ to all who struggle in darkness.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-8">Day 8&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and lift up all of those who are lost–those who have fallen away, those who can’t find their way, and those struggling to discern where God is calling them. St. Anthony, through your extensive travels, you undoubtedly encountered many who were lost, in many ways, and were a light to guide them to Christ. We are lost at times today, too. Pray for us, that we may open our eyes to the path that leads us to Christ, and that we may guide others towards our loving Father as well.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-9">Day 9&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Glorious St. Anthony, renowned for your ability to aid in making miracles happen, you are close to God in heaven with all the angels and saints. Through you, we have better come to know the majesty, power and love of our God. We seek His favor and grace today and ask for your prayers for the pursuit of sainthood. Pray that the nine days of this novena will transform me long after today. Pray that I can have a fraction of the trust in God that you displayed your entire life. Pray for me this day and each day, that I may be more holy tomorrow than I am today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We also come to you today with this special request weighing on my heart: (Share your personal intention here) Dearest St. Anthony, miracle worker and the one who always helps what is lost once again be found, I humbly come to you asking for your prayers. Strengthen my request through your intercession. Pray for me, that I might remain faithful to God even in the face of tremendous obstacles or hardships, completely trusting in Him, just as you did.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Our Father…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Hail Mary…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One Glory Be…</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anthony, pray for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stanthonynovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-novenas">More Novenas</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-monica-novena/">St. Monica Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">54-Day Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-related-bible-verses">Related Bible Verses</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-protection/">Bible Verses for Protection</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-humility/">Bible Verses for Humility</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-family/">Bible Verses for Family</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-confidence/">Bible Verses for Confidence</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Anthony Novena: Novena to St. Anthony of Padua Prayer [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => saint-anthony-novena [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-05-23 21:10:41 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-05-23 21:10:41 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=59360 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 57388 [post_author] => 54 [post_date] => 2024-05-02 17:39:38 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-05-02 17:39:38 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Use the links below to jump to different sections of this article dedicated to the Chaplet of the 5 Holy Wounds of Jesus.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Introduction</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#history">History of the 5 Holy Wounds</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#promises">Promises of Devotion to 5 Holy Wounds</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#how-to">How to Pray the Chaplet of the 5 Holy Wounds</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#more">Related Prayers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center">“Perhaps in that kingdom we shall see on the bodies of the Martyrs the traces of the wounds which they bore for Christ’s name: because it will not be a deformity, but a dignity in them; and a certain kind of beauty will shine in them, in the body, though not of the body.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Saint Augustine</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The 5 Holy Wounds of Jesus are the five wounds Jesus Christ sustained on the cross: the 4 nail holes in his hands and feet, as well as the final wound in His torso from the spear. People throughout centuries have meditated on these wounds to remember Jesus’s Passion.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button {"textAlign":"center","backgroundColor":"hallow-purple"} --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-hallow-purple-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/five-holy-wounds-chaplet">Pray on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="history"><strong>History of the 5 Holy Wounds</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a revival of devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ stirred interest in honoring His Holy Wounds. Many customs were created for this devotion, such as reciting 15 <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-our-father/">‘Our Father’</a> prayers everyday and holding a <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15714a.htm">special mass</a>, also known as the ‘Golden Mass.’</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The purpose of this devotion is to increase faith in His Resurrection and to remember the suffering He went through for us. It is also <a href="https://aleteia.org/2018/08/12/this-nun-had-visions-of-heaven-and-the-holy-family/">used</a> as an act of reparation for the world’s sins and to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/prayers-for-the-dead/">pray for those in purgatory</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"lent-embed"} --> <p class="lent-embed">Sister Marie-Martha, a sister of the <a href="https://visitationsistersfirstfederation.org/">Religious of the Visitation</a> of Chambery, is known for the revival of one of the most popular devotions to Jesus’ wounds, the Chaplet of the 5 Holy Wounds. As a child, she began having visions of Jesus inviting her to contemplate the Holy Wounds.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Her Mother Superior took notes of her life, and published them in 1923, where she detailed a prayer that Jesus gave her, the Chaplet of the 5 Holy Wounds.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote {"className":""} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center">“Eternal Father I offer the wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to heal those of our souls.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Sister Marie-Martha Chambon</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="promises"><strong>Promises for Devotion to His 5 Holy Wounds</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">As detailed in Sister Mary Martha Chambon’s journal, published in 1923, Jesus gave the following<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Purgatory_Divine_Mercy/tsmnAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Every+word+of+the+Chaplet+of+Mercy+you+pronounce&amp;pg=PT130&amp;printsec=frontcover"> promises</a> for all those who remain faithful to praying this chaplet:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Every word of the Chaplet of Mercy you pronounce, I allow a drop of My Blood to fall upon the soul of a sinner.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Each time that you offer to My Father the merits of My Divine Wounds, you win an immense fortune.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Souls that will have contemplated and honored My crown of thorns on earth, will be My crown of glory in Heaven.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>I will grant all that is asked of Me through the invocation of My Holy Wounds. You. Will obtain everything, because it is through the merit of My Blood, which is of infinite price. With My Wounds and My Divine Heart, everything can be obtained.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>From My Wounds proceed fruits of sanctity. As gold purified in the crucible becomes more beautiful, so you must put your soul and those of your companions into My sacred Wounds; there they will become perfected as gold in the furnace. You can always purify yourself in My Wounds.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>My Wounds will repair yours. My Wounds will cover all your faults. Those who honor them will have a true knowledge of Jesus Christ. In meditation on them, you will always find a new love. My Wounds will cover all your sins.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>Offer Me your actions united to My Wounds and they will be of value. All your actions, even the least, soaked in My Blood, will acquire incomprehensible riches, an infinite merit and will please My Heart.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>In offering My Wounds for the conversion of sinners, even though the sinners are not converted, you will have the same merit before God as if they were.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>When you have some sorrow, something to suffer, quickly place it in My Wounds, and the pain will be alleviated.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>This aspiration must often be repeated near the sick: “My Jesus, Pardon and Mercy through the merits of Your Holy Wounds!” This prayer will solace the soul and body.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>The sinner who will say the following prayer: “Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ to heal the wounds of our souls”, shall obtain conversion”.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>There will be no death for the soul that expires in My Holy Wounds; they give true life. The way to My Holy Wounds is easy, so easy to reach Heaven.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>This chaplet is a counterpoise to My justice; it restrains My vengeance.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>The soul who prays with humility and meditates on My Passion, will one day share in the glory of My Divine Wounds. The souls will be crowned with resplendent beauty and glory.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>The more you will have contemplated My painful Wounds on this earth, the higher will be your contemplation of them glorious in Heaven.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>The soul who during life has honored the Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ and has offered them to the Eternal Father for the souls in Purgatory, will be accompanied at the moment of death by the Holy Virgin and the angels; and Our Lord on the Cross, all brilliant in glory, will receive her and crown her.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><em>The invocations of the Holy Wounds will obtain an incessant victory for the Church.</em></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button {"textAlign":"center","backgroundColor":"hallow-purple"} --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-hallow-purple-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/five-holy-wounds-chaplet">Pray on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to"><strong>How to Pray the Chaplet of His 5 Holy Wounds: Step by Step Guide</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Throughout this chaplet, we can pray for our sins, contemplate on the Passion of Christ, or remember His Resurrection and His victory over evil. Using a <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">rosary</a>, recite the prayer below.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Time Needed: 15 minutes</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><strong>How to Pray the Chaplet of His 5 Holy Wounds</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Begin with the Sign of the Cross.</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":2,"className":""} --> <ol start="2" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Holding the Crucifix, pray:&nbsp;</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>O Jesus, Divine Redeemer, be merciful to us and to the whole world. Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/K2GbLFuW5IEiZxND3ogT4fQyr4Don8XLR9x_QMWXj9dON_-HZ_FbmvGVHsMQ2htNmPsEZmeu0JF9_Odw3v4YpR087-VcyuQ8VJRXJ0kHLvkwIRtegrhYmMlhfKu1EPQNqPQDPeFFn_dTayxalZh8tVQ" style="width: 250px;"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":3,"className":""} --> <ol start="3" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>On the first three beads, </strong><a href="https://visitationspirit.org/"><strong>pray</strong></a><strong>:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>First bead:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>O Powerful God! O Holy God! O Immortal God! Have pity on us and upon the whole world! Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Second bead:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Pardon and mercy, O my Jesus, during these present dangers. Pour on us Thy Most Precious Blood! Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Third bead:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>O Eternal Father, be merciful to us through the Blood of Jesus Christ Thy only Son! Be merciful to us, we beseech Thee! Amen.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/4MyYVYDqVNdLbcVa-1lsyyFK-Q7cUuFI-p4HUrKKiT35i0GyZg2sy1PqTjXwVXu1ejoAWP2geHTvL40mQ8lxX9x1d_cXTnYIPL1B-GLno4V8xo-qpey8f72Vuy1EhsyGAtnxcuSFuw9wFO0e4d9yZMs" width="280" height="422.6095329802601"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":4,"className":""} --> <ol start="4" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>For the first decade, meditate on the Wound in the left foot of Jesus. On the large bead, pray:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ to heal the Wounds of our souls.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Z8szvbAhaSTe3HX6gTKC8cS906TPKhES7QLBKUhiJwy06tPSgKE147pUfzq103UvI6mArc-RHQEP5UgsRUbqeYZ2AMHTHsh-yBBRfhW8kxTBk_RXXxrQxxSp6ExF68HAEX5XvzKm_yPbWvRunUnm0mk" width="263.40407288317255" height="395"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":5,"className":""} --> <ol start="5" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>On the 10 small beads, pray:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merits of Thy Holy Wounds!</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/qL3fEohoSIlCtCWCT1FrSqemomO2-9qqtgRf65WiUPdMtZsV7YeE7vk0-g85mb_YR0QevvLn65rw0SwJIXeffiqQxOzri75xxM31VBn6YIwb_KdPN0NJ63NxvHfT7h6ZfjotLDiOg95Sm8xOcSTRKTA" width="511.90419161676647" height="385"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":6,"className":""} --> <ol start="6" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Repeat these prayers using the rest of the beads on the rosary while meditating on His other wounds:&nbsp;</strong><!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wound in His right foot</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wound in His left hand</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wound in His right hand</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Wound in the Sacred side of Jesus</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"start":7,"className":""} --> <ol start="7" class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><strong>Once complete, finish by repeating this prayer three times:</strong></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ to heal the Wounds of our souls.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","className":""} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>(</em><a href="https://abbeyvocations.org/chaplet-of-the-five-wounds-of-jesus"><em>Source</em></a><em>)</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="more"><strong>More Prayers</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you are interested in praying related rosaries or chaplets, check these out below.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-st-michael-chaplet/">Saint Michael Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">Divine Mercy Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-gertrude-prayer-chaplet-and-rosary-how-to-pray/">St. Gertrude Chaplet</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button {"textAlign":"center","backgroundColor":"hallow-purple"} --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-hallow-purple-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/five-holy-wounds-chaplet">Pray on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => How to Pray the Chaplet/Rosary of the Five Holy Wounds [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => chaplet-of-the-five-holy-wounds [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-09-11 19:23:25 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-09-11 19:23:25 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=57388 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 57676 [post_author] => 24 [post_date] => 2024-05-01 00:44:36 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-05-01 00:44:36 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">For centuries, Catholics have recognized Mary in a special way in May, known sometimes as “the month of Mary.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This may, Word on Fire is honoring Mary by <a href="https://www.wordonfire.org/pray-rosary/">launching a campaign</a> to pray 50,000 Rosaries.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Visit <a href="http://wordonfire.org">WordonFire.org</a> to log your rosary towards the goal, or pray the rosary with Bishop Barron from Word on Fire <a href="https://hallow.app.link/wofrosarychallenge">directly in the Hallow app</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Last year, Word on Fire’s campaign led to 64,000 Rosaries prayed, far exceeding the goal of 10,000.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In 2024, the goal is 50,000 Rosaries prayed, but Word on Fire’s Bishop Robert Barron is hoping Catholics can come together to celebrate Mary in an even greater way.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“I would love to see us get to 100,000 Rosaries prayed this month,” he said. “It is truly inspiring to look at the map on our website and see it covered in red dots and to know that each dot represents at least one Rosary that was prayed for the ‘lost sheep’ to return to the shepherd.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you’re not familiar with this traditional prayer, Hallow has a complete, step-by-step guide to <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-rosary/">how to pray the Rosary</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/wofrosarychallenge">Pray the Rosary on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-rosary-resources">More Rosary Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/7-sorrows/">7 Sorrows Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-latin-rosary/">How to Pray the Rosary in Latin</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-54-day-novena/">How to Pray the 54-Day Rosary</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => Join Word on Fire and Hallow in Campaign to Pray 50,000 Rosaries in May [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => word-on-fire-rosary-campaign [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-05-01 00:52:54 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-05-01 00:52:54 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=57676 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 57600 [post_author] => 44 [post_date] => 2024-04-29 20:15:47 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-04-29 20:15:47 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">May is Mental Health Month—an initiative established more than six decades ago and is more important now than ever.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Educators are on the front lines as they seek to strengthen their students' mental and spiritual well-being.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">God calls us to share our gifts and talents with the world, and as educators, that means leading, guiding, and serving as examples of virtue for our students.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We are best equipped to do that when we begin from a position of strong spiritual and mental health.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At Hallow, we believe that a close relationship with God through daily prayer paves the way for this.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-finding-peace-through-prayer-as-educators">Finding Peace Through Prayer as Educators</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Several <a href="https://psychcentral.com/blog/spirituality-and-prayer-relieve-stress#1">research studies</a> have shown that a <a href="https://nyulangone.org/news/brain-images-reveal-first-physical-evidence-prayers-reduce-cravings-alcoholics-anonymous-members">routine practice</a> of prayer can have measurable effects on a person’s resilience, happiness, and performance.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Prayer feeds our soul; a nourished soul is more equipped to navigate life's hurdles and mental struggles.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">At Hallow, we believe it is a foundational element for spiritual and mental wellness, as it connects us to God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-lectio-divina-drawing-comfort-amp-solace-from-scripture">Lectio Divina: Drawing Comfort &amp; Solace from Scripture</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Prayer is not meant to be a monologue but a dialogue between God and us - and <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-lectio-divina/">Lectio Divina</a> is a beautiful way for us to practice daily conversation with the Lord.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lectio Divina (Latin for “divine reading”) is an ancient form of prayer where we slowly read or listen to a passage from Scripture. Then, we spend time meditating on it, noticing what stands out to us about the reading, acknowledging any thoughts or feelings it elicits, and responding to God by sharing them.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Saint Cyprian tells us: “When you pray, you speak with God, when you read, God speaks to you.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Lectio is a wonderful way for us to practice actively listening to God’s voice, anchoring our prayer in His Word, drawing wisdom and solace from it while still allowing space for us to share and entrust our struggles to Him.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-daily-examen-the-gift-of-intentional-reflection">The Daily Examen: The Gift of Intentional Reflection</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Educators dedicate themselves selflessly to teaching and guiding others, which is extremely rewarding. But, as with any vocation, our daily lives are full of ups and downs.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Reflective prayer is a powerful gift that can help us navigate these ups and downs, allowing us to view moments of joy, challenges, and setbacks within the broader context of our lives, revealing God’s presence with us.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Seeing how God is working in our lives can provide profound clarity and foster peace of mind that can sustain us through our most difficult times.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Examen is a beautiful yet practical form of reflective prayer we can practice daily.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Originally shared by <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/ignatius-loyola/">St. Ignatius of Loyola</a> in his <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/ignatian-spirituality-and-the-spiritual-exercises/">Spiritual Exercises</a>, the Examen invites us to review our day, identifying moments where we experienced God, were challenged, or struggled. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We then anticipate tomorrow and where the Spirit may lead us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Ignatius believed that the Examen was a gift from God to be shared as widely as possible. He believed in its impact so strongly that, when founding the Jesuits, he made praying the Daily Examen requirement for the entire order.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He may have been on to something...</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In addition to helping us to be more aware of God's presence, a daily habit of reflection can be a powerful tool for strengthening our mental health.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Several studies have linked a practice of gratitude, a key part of the Examen, with improved mental health.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Practicing the Examen daily helps us to identify both the positive and the negative. It then guides us to seek God's infinite mercy and grace, releasing ourselves from guilt, shame, or sorrow while inviting us to look forward to what He has in store for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-practicing-the-daily-examen">Practicing the Daily Examen:</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true,"className":""} --> <ol class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Invite: Begin by inviting God to review your day with you.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Give Thanks: Reflect on the gifts of the day and express gratitude for God’s blessings, even the ones that are “in disguise.”</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Review: Think through the day’s events and how we responded to what the Lord put before us.&nbsp;</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Respond: Share your thoughts and feelings with God and listen for His guidance.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Look Forward: Spend a moment anticipating the challenges and joys of tomorrow and ask God to prepare us for them.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Whatever we may be going through, the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">Daily Examen</a> can help us see God’s presence in our lives more clearly.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-instilling-mental-health-practices-in-our-students">Instilling Mental Health Practices in Our Students</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Young people today are suffering from overwhelming levels of anxiety, making it more important now than ever before that they develop healthy habits that foster mental wellness through spiritual strength as they grow.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-looking-to-the-saints-for-inspiration-amp-intercession-nbsp">Looking to the Saints for Inspiration &amp; Intercession&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Praying with the <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/">saints</a>, and asking saints to pray for us, reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This is particularly important for young people, and saints can provide beautiful inspiration to turn to during difficult times.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Whatever your students may be going through, there is a good chance there is a saint who has experienced something similar.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You can turn to a saint with a similar experience (or any saint) to ask for their prayers and look to them for inspiration and guidance in growing closer to God, even amidst daily struggles.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Some saints you can introduce them to:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/dymphna/">St. Dymphna</a>: The patron saint of mental illness who was martyred under tragic circumstances</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/oscar-romero/">St. Oscar Romero</a>: Diagnosed late in his life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/francis-de-sales/">St. Francis de Sales</a>: Battled deep depression and hopelessness before turning his life over to God and discovering his call to the priesthood.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://try.hallow.com/mhm24-schools">Learn More About Hallow for Schools</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-practicing-christian-meditation">Practicing Christian Meditation</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While secular meditation is rooted in “mindfulness” — turning us inward to seek solitary silence — <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-christian-meditation/">Christian meditation</a> allows us to enter into silence with God, filling our hearts with His presence.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We can do this by using different forms of prayer like Lectio Divina or The Examen, which allow students a way to practice listening for God’s voice.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">While we do “let go” of things while practicing Christian meditation, the primary purpose of this prayer method is always to grow closer to God. By offering up our sorrows or worries to God, asking Him to take control - which can be incredibly relieving for a young person who may be struggling with overwhelm, anxiety, or stress.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-becoming-mentally-resilient-through-surrender">Becoming Mentally Resilient Through Surrender</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">No matter our age or stage of life, we are called to surrender to Christ. allow Him to take our worries, struggles, challenges, and burdens. As educators, there are often situations where we feel helpless, frustrated, or stuck.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It is during these times that we can turn to God and surrender our fears and worries through prayers like these:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-litany-of-trust">Litany of Trust</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Written by Sr. Faustina Maria Pia of the Sisters of Life, the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-litany-of-trust/">Litany of Trust</a> leads us to pray for less self-reliance and more trust in Jesus and His overflowing love for us.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The litany first helps put into words the fears, worries, and refusals we struggle with that hold us back from placing our complete trust in Jesus. Then, in the second part of the litany, we state our trust in Jesus, relying on the Holy Spirit to give us the grace to do so.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-surrender-novena">Surrender Novena</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a>, we turn away from ourselves and towards Jesus, who wraps us in His arms and takes care of everything in His everlasting love for us.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Surrender Novena comes from Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo, a Servant of God and candidate for beatification (to become a saint). Jesus revealed to Fr. Dolindo the words that make up this novena. Fr. Dolindo, who called himself “Mary’s little old man,” suffered for much of his life, even living in paralysis for the last ten years before his death.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">He was also, at one time, the spiritual director and a friend of <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/padre-pio-prayers-feast-day/">Padre Pio</a>, who similarly found the love of Christ in his suffering.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Both Fr. Dolindo and Padre Pio left us with many words and prayers that guide us toward surrendering ourselves to Christ. They also inspire us to always meet others with mercy and love, representative of their surrender to Christ and His love for us.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In praying this novena of surrender, we meditate on the same words Jesus gave Fr. Dolindo over nine days, in which we hear Jesus tell us to give Him everything and to place our complete trust in Him.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Turn to the Surrender Novena whenever you struggle to take care of something on your own, whenever you struggle to give over a worry, doubt, or suffering to God.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray this novena to give everything to Jesus and say, “Jesus, you take care of it.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-divine-mercy-chaplet">Divine Mercy Chaplet</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://hallow.com/saints/john-paul-ii/">Pope Saint John Paul II</a> once said, “Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-divine-mercy-chaplet/">Divine Mercy Chaplet</a> was originally given to St. Faustina in 1935. It serves as a reminder that no matter what challenges we face, the mercy of the Lord is boundless, and He invites us to take courage and solace in it.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We are called to recognize our weakness and offer our anxieties and worries with abundant trust in God, repeating fervently: “Jesus, I trust in You.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><em>Looking for more resources to elevate your and your student's spiritual and mental wellness? We're here to support you! 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WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 57319 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-04-26 19:08:44 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-04-26 19:08:44 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Use the links below to jump to a certain day for the St. Anne Novena or scroll down to begin the novena.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-1">Day 1 - Grandmothers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-2">Day 2 - For Women Hoping to Conceive</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-3">Day 3 - For Women in Labor</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-4">Day 4 - For New Mothers&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-5">Day 5 - For New Grandmothers&nbsp;</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-6">Day 6 - For Homemakers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-7">Day 7 - For Single People</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-8">Day 8 - For Couples</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-9">Day 9 - Pursuit of Sainthood</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne is the mother of Mary and, therefore, the grandmother of Jesus. The name Anne <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_Saint_Anne/GbBfAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1">comes from the Hebrew</a> word for “gracious.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We know relatively little about St. Anne and her husband, St. Joachim. They are not mentioned in the Gospel, but we learn about them from other sources.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Over the centuries, different communities felt especially close to St. Anne.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">She is especially popular in France, thanks to Jacob de Voragine’s medieval work, <em>Golden Legend</em>, published in 1260. To this day, the Shrine of St. Anne in France is the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/features/seeking-forgiveness-at-the-shrine-of-saint-anne-in-brittany-her-only-apparition-site">third major shrine</a> in the country, along with Lourdes and Lisieux.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/st-anne-saints-and-art">She is the patron</a> saint of grandmothers, women in labor (along with <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/gianna-beretta-molla/">St. Gianna</a>), and those struggling with fertility issues. Miners also consider her their patron, stemming from the view that Jesus and Mary as precious gold and silver that <a href="https://www.saintanne.org/about/94-story-of-st-anne">originated from Anne’s womb</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stannenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the 19th-century book “The Life of St. Anne,” author James Duffy refers to a legend about St. Anne’s death.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“Some pious authors have thought that at this last hour a revelation from on high allowed the holy mother of Mary to behold the glorious destinies to which Heaven called her daughter,” he wrote.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">“A celestial joy illuminated her countenance as she gazed on this flory; and it was in this state of blessedness that she bowed her head and breathed her latest sigh.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-anne-novena-history">St. Anne Novena History</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne and her husband St. Joachim were both <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_Saint_Anne/GbBfAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1">acknowledged in the early Church</a>, with a church dedicated to St. Anne dating back to the year 550.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">One thousand years later, in the 1500s, Leonardo depicted St. Anne, with Mary and baby Jesus in <em>Virgin and Child with St Anne and a Lamb</em>, an oil painting that now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Devotion to St. Anne has remained popular in the centuries since.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In Massachusetts, the St. Anne Shrine has hosted a St. Anne Novena each year <a href="https://stannestpatrickparish.com/novena-to-st-anne#:~:text=Anne,-St.&amp;text=For%20135%20years%2C%20ever%20since,recited%20and%20Mass%20being%20said.">since 1887</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The novena to St. Anne can be prayed any time, but is most popular starting on July 18, leading up to her feast day on July 26.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">There are different versions of novenas to St. Anne. The version below offers up one fixed intention each day in addition to the personal prayer intention you want to offer up the novena for each day.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-to-pray-st-anne-novena">How to Pray: St. Anne Novena</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-1">Day 1 - Grandmothers</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for grandmothers in our world–that they can be pillars of faith for their families and signs of Your love.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stannenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-2">Day 2 - For Women Hoping to Conceive</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for women struggling to conceive and those encountering fertility issues.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-3">Day 3 - For Women in Labor</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for all women in labor, that they remain healthy and feel God’s loving peace and comfort embrace them as they prepare to welcome the gift of new life into the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-4">Day 4 - For New Mothers&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for new mothers. You were once a new mother and no doubt encountered challenges and struggles in learning the path forward. Pray for all women who recently welcomed children into the world, that they may know with certainty that they are enough. And that they are loved. Pray that God gives them strength, comfort, and wisdom.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-5">Day 5 - For New Grandmothers&nbsp;</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for grandmothers in our world–that they can be pillars of faith for their families and signs of Your love.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stannenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-6">Day 6 - For Homemakers</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for homemakers and housewives, those who imbue homes with love and faith. Those who offer the beautiful gift of hospitality, through which Scripture tells us some have entertained angels.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-7">Day 7 - For Single People</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray for all single people. Pray that they never feel along in God’s love. Pray that they keep their hearts fixed on God and their ears open to His call.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-8">Day 8 - For Couples</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for all couples. Pray that God strengthens their relationships and blesses their marriages. Pray that they discern God’s call for their lives.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-9">Day 9 - Pursuit of Sainthood</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Blessed St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, you cried out to the Lord with your needs. Today, I ask for your prayers in my own moment of need.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">You comforted your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Jesus. Be with us today and as we humbly ask, intercede with your prayers on our behalf.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, you gave us Immaculate Mary, free from original sin, who continues to watch over us and pray for us. We beseech you, St. Anne, to pray today for as we strive to live our lives as saints, as we are all called to do.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, grandmother of Christ, pray also today for this special intention that I hold near to my heart: (share your personal intention for the novena):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Anne, filled with compassion and favored by God, intercede for me, that God will grant me my special request, as He did for you. Pray especially that I will submit to God’s will and trust in Him, as you did. St. Anne, pray for me!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stannenovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-novenas">More Novenas</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/st-monica-novena/">St. Monica Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-jude-novena/">St. Jude Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-saint-lucy-novena/">St. Lucy Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-joseph-worker-novena/">St. Joseph the Worker Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Thérèse Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/scripture/bible-verses-for-married-couples/">Bible Verses for Married Couples</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Anne Novena: How to Pray a Novena to St. Anne [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-anne-novena [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-05-16 16:10:18 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-05-16 16:10:18 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=57319 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 57060 [post_author] => 6 [post_date] => 2024-04-24 14:55:57 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-04-24 14:55:57 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">This summer, Hallow returns to Franciscan University (Steubenville, Ohio) for the Hallow Summit—and we hope you'll be among the hundreds of people who join us in coming together in prayer and fellowship.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-is-the-hallow-summit">What is the Hallow Summit?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I got the idea for the Hallow Summit after attending a different prayer conference. I felt a great high—like I could take on the world. But then, after the conference was over, that feeling quickly vanished. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">It felt like I had the support of all the Heavenly host during the conference, and then suddenly, I was on my own again in the “real world.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">I wanted to create an experience that was meaningful and impactful, but that also strengthened my practical understanding of how to pray after the conference was over. The Hallow Summit is our take on that goal.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Hallow Summit feels like part conference, part retreat. The goal is not just to talk about prayer, but to actually bring about an encounter with the Lord. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We will focus on the techniques of prayer, like <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-lectio-divina/">Lectio Divina</a> and the <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-examen/">Examen</a>, but we’ll also incorporate panels, breakout sessions, and musical performances. In order to bring this weekend to life, we will be inviting some of the best talent to be our guides (see who below). Additionally, we will host Masses, make <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-go-to-confession-the-sacrament-of-penance-reconciliation/">confession</a> available and present the blessed sacrament in <a href="https://hallow.com/blog/eucharist-holy-communion-adoration-prayer/">adoration</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":57248,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://hallow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713973233655-d2bad628-13e8-4576-8a63-045206e96cf9_2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-57248"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-when-is-the-hallow-summit">When is the Hallow Summit?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The Hallow Summit runs from Aug. 2-4 in Steubenville, Ohio at Franciscan University.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-who-can-attend">Who can attend?</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">The ideal attendee is someone who has a desire to grow deeper in their faith life and is at least 18 years old. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">That’s it. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">We welcome folks of all backgrounds regardless of where you are on your faith journey. We ask that you bring an open heart and are ready to receive what God has in store for you this wonderful weekend.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Please consider joining us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://try.hallow.com/summit-2024">Register for the 2024 Hallow Summit</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> [post_title] => Join us for the 2024 Hallow Summit [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => hallow-summit [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-04-24 15:42:20 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-04-24 15:42:20 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=57060 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 56786 [post_author] => 32 [post_date] => 2024-04-22 21:39:37 [post_date_gmt] => 2024-04-22 21:39:37 [post_content] => <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Use the links below to quickly jump to a particular day of the novena, or keep scrolling to get started from the beginning.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-1">Day 1 - For All Mothers</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-2">Day 2 - For All Wives</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-3">Day 3 - For Widows</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-4">Day 4 - For All Families</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-5">Day 5 - For Victims of Abuse</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-6">Day 6 - For Those Battling Alcoholism</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-7">Day 7 - For All Dealing with Grief</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-8">Day 8 - For All Those Who Have Fallen Away</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="#day-9">Day 9 - Pursuit of Sainthood</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Praying a novena to <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/monica/">St. Monica</a> has been a staple of the faith lives of many Christians for at least hundreds of years.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bishop_s_Dilemma/uroqAAAAYAAJ"><em>The Bishop’s Dilemma</em></a>, an 1898 novel, makes reference to a mother praying a novena to St. Monica because her son "drank more than was good for him" and spent most of his time playing billiards. In modern times, the novena remains popular with mothers praying for children who have distanced themselves from God.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":"lent-embed"} --> <p class="lent-embed"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Augustinian_manual_comprising_a_prac/Y8oCAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1"><em>The Augustinian Manual</em></a>, a “practical prayer book” from 1885, includes several different prayers also seeking the intercession of St. Monica, writing that her “patiences in domestic trials, her conformity to the will of God, an her spirit of persevering, confiding prayer, teach us ever in trials and sorrows to have recourse to that unfailing source of consolation.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-than-just-augustine-s-mother">More Than Just Augustine’s Mother</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Monica is well known for being the mother to <a href="https://hallow.com/saints/augustine-of-hippo/">St. Augustine</a>, who had a miraculous conversion to the faith and went on to become a Doctor of the Church as well as a prolific writer, penning works like <em>City of God</em> and <em>Confessions</em>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">But Monica’s sainthood represents the remarkable faith she displayed in so many aspects of her life. Given in marriage to a pagan man, Patricius, Monica loved him and prayed for him, while dealing with his violent temper and complicated relationships with his family. He eventually converted and died shortly after.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Though she struggled as a single mother of three, Monica persevered and never gave up. She lived selflessly and prayed diligently. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica continues to pray for us today.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stmonicanovena">Pray novenas on Hallow</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-st-monica-novena-how-to-pray">St. Monica Novena - How to Pray</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica is considered the patron saint of many groups and causes, from mothers, wives and widows to those suffering from alcoholism and those who are victims of abuse. She's also become specifically the patron of all mothers praying for their children.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In this St. Monica Novena, we’ll lift up a specific cause each day, while allowing you to offer up your own special intention each day over the course of nine days.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Pray this novena to St. Monica&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-1">Day 1 - For Mothers</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and these intentions, as we pray today especially for all the mothers and motherly figures in the world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class=""></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stmonicanovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-2">Day 2 - For Wives</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and these intentions, as we lift up married women today. We think of those wives in our lives and especially for those in challenging relationships.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions. (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-3">Day 3 - For Widows</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and these intentions. Today we lift up all widows, that they may never feel alone knowing God is near them.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-4">Day 4 - For Families</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and today especially, all families. Pray that God’s love can unite us and reconcile us. You know families can sometimes bring with them painful dynamics. Pray for us as we look to God as our source of hope.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-5">Day 5 - For Victims of Abuse</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and in a special way today, for all victims of abuse. Pray that God may rescue them from shame and wrap them in His healing love.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-6">Day 6 - For Those Battling Alcoholism</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and in a special way today, for all those whose lives are negatively impacted by alcoholism and alcohol abuse.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-7">Day 7 - For Those Suffering Grief</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and for everyone dealing with grief, loss and sadness today.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-8">Day 8 - For Those Who Have Fallen Away</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, and pray for those who have fallen away from their faith or who have not yet come to know God. You were so patient in praying for those close to you whose hearts and minds had not yet been touched by God. We pray for peace in our own hearts and ask you to intercede in prayer for those who are not making space for God in their lives.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:buttons {"layout":{"type":"flex","justifyContent":"center"}} --> <div class="wp-block-buttons"><!-- wp:button --> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://hallow.app.link/stmonicanovena">Try Hallow for Free</a></div> <!-- /wp:button --></div> <!-- /wp:buttons --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":3,"className":""} --> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="day-9">Day 9 - For the Pursuit of Sainthood</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you remind us that “nothing is far from God.” As we seek to feel close to our loving Father, pray for me, that these nine days spent in prayer will help me better live my calling toward sainthood. You remind us that ordinary people like me can live saintly lives. Pray that I may choose good over evil and love God and others more fully than I ever imagined possible.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">St. Monica, you prayed fervently during your time here on earth. We ask for your intercession today for these special intentions: (Share your intention for this St. Monica Novena)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Dear St. Monica, through your powerful intercessory prayers, your son Augustine allowed God to soften his heart. Through Augustine, and the example of your tireless love, the world has been able to encounter God in a profound way. St. Monica, you know well the struggles we can encounter in this world, especially challenges with those who are close to us. Challenges that can sometimes cause us to lose sight of the beauty of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. We ask for your intercession, that God’s infinite love may heal, comfort and strengthen us, and that the Holy Spirit may bring our hearts closer together and closer to God. St. Monica, Pray for us!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Close with a prayer from St. Augustine</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.&nbsp; Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.&nbsp;Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always may be holy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"className":""} --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-prayer-resources">More Prayer Resources</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"className":""} --> <p class="">If you enjoyed praying the St. Monica Novena, consider other novenas to help you deepen your faith:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"className":""} --> <ul class=""><!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/holy-family-novena/">Holy Family Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/">Surrender Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-sacred-heart-novena/">Sacred Heart Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li><a href="https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-st-therese-novena/">St. Therese Novena</a></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> [post_title] => St. Monica Novena: How to Pray a Novena to St. Monica [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => st-monica-novena [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2024-04-22 21:39:44 [post_modified_gmt] => 2024-04-22 21:39:44 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://hallow.com/?p=56786 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw )