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 9 - SEPTEMBER 4
HOLINESS IS JESUS LIVING AND ACTING IN ME
“Our works of charity are nothing but the overflow of our love of God from within. Therefore, the one who is most united to Him loves her neighbor most.”
“We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us.”
“Sanctity is the acceptance of the will of God with a big smile…that's all. Just that acceptance, to accept Him as He comes in our life, accepting to take from us what He wants, to make use of us as He wants, to put us where He wants, to use us as He wants…without consulting us.”
“Holiness is not in the feelings or in imagination, it is reality. One thing that helps me and will help you is this: works of love are works of holiness.”
“Let us spend ourselves with Him and for Him. Let Him see with your eyes, speak with your tongue, work with your hands, walk with your feet, think with your head, and love with your heart. Is this not perfect union, a continual loving prayer? God is our loving Father. Let your light of love so shine before man that seeing your good works (the washing, sweeping, cooking, loving your husband and the children), they may glorify the Father.”
“Be holy. Holiness is the easiest way to satiate Jesus's Thirst, His for you and yours for Him.”
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Charity for each other is the surest way to great holiness.”
Ask for the grace to become a saint.
(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 6 - SEPTEMBER 4
Oh Holy Mother, St. Joachim and St. Anne were delighted to love and care for so holy a child. Pray for me today that the feast of your birth may give great joy to my soul that I may show greater charity to my parents and grandparents in word, prayer and deed.
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 6 - SEPTEMBER 4
O Immaculate Mother, who can ever describe your renowned fame? The God of heaven came to this earth through you. Bearing Jesus in you, you gave Him your whole self to form His human body. Virgin Mother of God, we praise you and pay our homage to you. You, who reside in Heaven with your Divine Son, are our sweetness; you, who radiate the light of the Eternal Light, are our guide; we pray you to teach us to love your Divine Son more and more. We acknowledge Him to be our King and you to be our Queen. He is our Mediator between the Heavenly Father and human race; you are the Mediatrix between our Lord and us, poor sinners. Jesus is the Way and you are its Entrance. O Fair Flower of the race of David, through you our Creator became our Redeemer, the God of all present was carried in your blessed womb, the God who feeds all was fed by you. Most Noble Mother, all generations call you blessed. We pray you to show your motherly love towards us, your poor children and to lead us to Eternal Salvation.
(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 4 - SEPTEMBER 4
O ever blessed and adorable God, we remember how Thou didst permit Thy servant Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, to see a multitude of the poor sufferers expiating their sins in purgatory, how the vision overwhelmed him with grief, and how his heart pour out its gratitude to Thee, when Thou didst accept the penances and prayers which He offered Thee in union with the infinite merits of the Holy Sacrifice. On the seventh day of his continual appeal to Thy mercy, Thou didst open wide the gates of purgatory and paradise, permitting his eyes to behold the great multitudes that were passing to their eternal rest with Thee. Vouchsafe now, O Lord, to show forth the wonders of Thy mercy. Grant, through the devotion of the Septenarium of the Saint, that the faithful departed may pass, this day, from the plains of darkness and suffering to the light of the Beatific Vision of heaven.
(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!