NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH
2⃣ ANNUNCIATION NOVENA
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH
DAY 9 - MARCH 18
SAINT JOSEPH, MODEL OF DETACHMENT
St. Joseph loved poverty because it detaches man from all passing and perishable goods, delivers the soul from dangerous obstacles, and from a thousand evils and cares, and permits him to keep his eyes raised towards Heaven, instead of stooping, like a slave, toward the earth. St. Joseph loved poverty, because he saw it practiced in the highest degree by Jesus Christ. Did he not regard it as a hidden and priceless treasure, when he contemplated Jesus in His abnegation, when he saw Him stretch out His divine hands to ask for the most necessary needs of life?
St. Joseph suffered the privations of life with patience, without murmur of complaint, using his poverty to detach himself more and more from worldly goods, and to seek the goods of Heaven.
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
PRAYER
St. Joseph, make me understand the excellence of poverty. Grant that I may enter into the interior dispositions which animated thee in regard to that virtue. Disclose to me the snares of riches, the dangers which are attached to them, the solicitude which they engender. Make me understand how much God favours us, when he refuses us riches, since he furnishes us a precious occasion to detach us from ourselves and from creatures, and to increase our merit for Heaven. Amen.
Protector of Holy Church, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
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2⃣ ANNUNCIATION NOVENA
DAY 3 - MARCH 18
THE EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIAH
Man, under the sorrow and effects of the first misery, and the accumulation of personal sins of each succeeding generation, looked and wept and prayed for the realization of the promise. All the Jewish history and ceremonial shows the eagerness with which God's people were looking for deliverance. Isaiah says: "Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just; let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour" (Is 45: 8). 'O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down; the mountains would melt away at thy presence" (Is 64: 1).
PRAYER
I greet you, Ever-blessed Virgin, Mother of God, Throne of Grace, miracle of Almighty Power! I greet you, Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity and Queen of the Universe, Mother of Mercy and refuge of sinners!
Most loving Mother, attracted by your beauty and sweetness, and by your tender compassion, I confidently turn to you, miserable as I am, and beg of you to obtain for me from your dear Son the favour I request in this novena.
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
Obtain for me also, Queen of heaven, the most lively contrition for my many sins and the grace to imitate closely those virtues which you practiced so faithfully, especially humility, purity and obedience. Above all, I beg you to be my Mother and Protectress, to receive me into the number of your devoted children, and to guide me from your high throne of glory.
Do not reject my petitions, Mother of Mercy! Have pity on me, and do not abandon me during life or at the moment of my death. Amen.