NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. TERESA OF KOLKATA
2⃣ NOVENA IN HONOUR OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY (BIRTH)
3⃣ NOVENA IN HONOUR OF OUR LADY OF VELANKANNI (GOOD HEALTH)
4⃣ NOVENA TO ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO
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1⃣ NOVENA TO ST. TERESA OF KOLKATA
DAY 8 - SEPTEMBER 3
JESUS MADE HIMSELF THE BREAD OF LIFE AND THE HUNGRY ONE
“He proved His love to us by giving His own life, His own being. ‘He being rich became poor' for you and for me."
"He gave Himself totally. He died on the Cross. But before He died, He made Himself the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for love, for Him. He said, ‘Unless you eat My Flesh and drink My Blood, you cannot have life eternal.'
And the greatness of that love of His made Him the hungry one, and He said, ‘I was hungry and you fed Me, and unless you feed Me, you cannot enter eternal life.' That is the giving of Christ. And today God keeps on loving the world. He keeps on sending you and me to prove that He loves the world, that He still has that compassion for the world. It is we who have to be His love, His compassion in the world of today. But to be able to love we must have faith, for faith in action is love, and love in action is service. That is why Jesus made Himself the Bread of Life, that we might be able to eat and live and be able to see Him in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“Our life must be woven with the Eucharist. From Jesus in the Eucharist we learn how much God thirsts to love us and how He thirsts for our love and for the love of souls in return. From Jesus in the Eucharist we receive the light and strength to quench His Thirst.”
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Believe that He, Jesus, is in the appearance of Bread and that He, Jesus, is in the hungry, naked, sick, lonely, unloved, homeless, helpless, and hopeless.”
Ask for the grace to see Jesus in the Bread of Life and to serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
(State your intentions here...)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be...
PRAYER TO ST. TERESA OF CALCUTTA: Saint Teresa of Calcutta, longing to love Jesus as He had never been loved before, you gave yourself entirely to Him, refusing Him nothing. In union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, you accepted His call to satiate His infinite thirst for love and souls and become a carrier of His love to the poorest of the poor. With loving trust and total surrender you fulfilled His will, witnessing to the joy of belonging totally to Him. You became so intimately united to Jesus your crucified Spouse that He deigned to share with you the agony of His Heart as He hung upon the Cross.
Saint Teresa, you promised to continuously bring the light of love to those on earth; pray for us that we also may long to satiate the burning thirst of Jesus by loving Him ardently, sharing in His sufferings joyfully, and serving Him wholeheartedly in our brothers and sisters, especially those most unloved and unwanted. Amen.
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2⃣ NOVENA IN HONOUR OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY (BIRTH)
DAY 5 - SEPTEMBER 3
Most Holy Mary, the Holy Spirit preserved you from sin so that our Lord would have a fitting vessel to enter the world. Pray for me today that the feast of your birth may give great joy to my soul that I may remain faithful to your Son until the end.
Dearest Mother, please pray for me and for these my intentions…
(State your intentions here...)
Pray the three Hail Marys...
V: Pray for us O Holy Mother of God!
R: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY: Grant to us your servants, we beseech you, O Lord, the gift of Your heavenly grace, that as our salvation was begun in the child-bearing of the Blessed Virgin, so from this solemn festival of her Nativity may we obtain an increase of peace. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Our Lady of Nativity: Pray for us!
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3⃣ NOVENA IN HONOUR OF OUR LADY OF VELANKANNI (GOOD HEALTH)
DAY 5 - SEPTEMBER 3
O Spotless Virgin Mother of Health, our heavenly Benefactress, Hail! Elizabeth received many favours for herself and for her family during your stay at her home. Choosing Velankanni as the place of your throne, you bless and obtain numerous favours for all those who seek your help, the blind obtain their sight, the dumb speak, the lame walk, the sick with no other hope of cure, are cured by you. Merciful Mother, we thank you for your favours shown to our brethren in need, and through you we adore and glorify your Almighty Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray to intercede for us in all our needs as your motherly heart knows them. Obtain God's Mercy for those who have offended Him and convert such hardened sinners to become His true friends.
(State your intentions here...)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be...
I desire by this novena, which I now offer in your honour, to prove the lively confidence I have in your intercession. Accept it, I beseech you, in honour of that supernatural love and joy, with which your Immaculate Heart was replenished during the abode of your divine Son in your womb, in veneration of which, I offer you the sentiments of my heart. Amen.
Our Lady of Velankanni: Pray for us!
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4⃣ NOVENA TO ST. NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO
DAY 3 - SEPTEMBER 3
Remember, O Divine and merciful Lord, Thy compassion to the soul of the Gentile Jodiani, for whom Saint Nicholas besought Thy mercy. Thou didst give the dying sinner the grace of repentance. Though didst suspend the rigour of Thy justice, and, accepting the merits and suffrages of the Saint, Thou didst remit the punishment deserved by his sins. Vouchsafe, O Lord, the same gentle pity to the poor penitent souls in purgatory, who, in human frailty, offended Thy majesty and holiness. List once more to the prayer of Thy Saint, to which we, in our lowliness, unite our supplications, and grant the poor souls relief from their sufferings, so that, with the Blessed in Heaven, they may join their voices in exultant praise of Thy mercy.
(State your intentions here...)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
PRAYER: Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God, that Thy Church, which is made illustrious with the glory of the prodigies and miracles of Saint Nicholas, Thy Blessed confessor, may, by his merits and intercession enjoy perpetual unity and peace. Amen.
Eternal Rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls rest in peace. Amen.
St. Nicholas, Patron of the Holy Souls: Pray for us!