Monday, December 17, 2012

Christmas Novena Day 1

The Christmas Novena is a nine-day period commencing today and ending with the Birth of Jesus. This below is the 1st Day of the Christmas Novena for anyone who would like to pray it :-)

The intentions in the prayer are my own (in blue) and i'd be grateful if you prayed for those too but certainly: add and pray your own intentions too!
Novena Day 1:


Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment
at which the Son of God was born
of a most pure Virgin at a stable at midnight
in Bethlehem in the piercing cold.

At that hour vouchsafe,
I beseech You to hear my prayers
and grant my requests:

That we may all draw near to You
strengthened to receive your mercy,
that our lives may be filled with hope, peace and joy.

That we may all believe in Your love for us
and may trust in You – no matter how hard it gets.

That those who cry or feel alone
may know that You are with them.

Through Jesus Christ and His most Blessed Mother,
Amen.
 
Your Passion is my hope. For the sake of that love which led You to take upon Yourself human nature and to die for me on the cross, forgive me all the offenses I have committed against You.
I love You, O Word Incarnate!

 
Prayer/reflection:

O Great Son of God, You have become man in order to make Yourself loved by men. But where is the love that men give You in return? You have given Your life blood to save our souls.

Why then are we so unappreciative that, instead of repaying You with love, we spurn You with ingratitude? And I, Lord, I myself more than others have thus ill treated You.
 
But Your Passion is my hope. For the sake of that love which led You to take upon Yourself human nature and to die for me on the cross, forgive me all the offenses I have committed against You.
 
I love You, O Word Incarnate; I love You, O infinite goodness. Out of love for You, I could die of grief for these offenses.
 
Give me, O Jesus, Your love. Let me no longer live in ungrateful forgetfulness of the love You bearest me. I wish to love You always. Grant that I may always preserve in this holy desire.
 
O Mary, Mother of God and my Mother, pray for me that Your Son may give me the grace to love Him always, unto death. Amen.
Your Passion is my hope. For the sake of that love which led You to take upon Yourself human nature and to die for me on the cross, forgive me all the offenses I have committed against You.

I love You, 
O Word Incarnate!

 

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