NOVENA PRAYERS
1⃣ PRAYING WITH ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
2⃣ NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
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1⃣ PRAYING WITH ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
DAY 8 - DECEMBER 1
“O MY GOD, ALMIGHTY AND MERCIFUL FATHER, CREATOR OF ALL THINGS OF THE WORLD, I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN YOU, MY GOD AND LORD, SINCE YOU ARE MY ENTIRE GOOD. YOU, LORD, CREATED ME AND YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BODY AND SOUL AND ALL THAT I HAVE. AND YOU, MY GOD, HAVE MADE ME IN YOUR LIKENESS. THANKS BE TO GOD!” (From the Short Catechism written by St. Francis Xavier for the people of Goa in India, May 1542).
Take time to consider the gifts God has given you.
Count the blessings he has poured out on you.
Give thanks!
Father, you are entire goodness and you are goodness for me. Creator of all things, who hold all things in being for me, give me faith in you and in myself. Amen.
(State your intentions here…)
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
St. Francis Xavier: Pray for us!
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2⃣ NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
DAY 3 - DECEMBER 1
O Blessed Virgin Mary, glory of the Christian people, joy of the universal Church and Mother of Our Lord, speak for us to the Heart of Jesus, who is your Son and our brother. O Mary, who by your holy Immaculate Conception did enter the world free from stain, in your mercy obtain for us from Jesus the special favor which we now so earnestly seek...
(State your intentions here...)
O Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your Divine Son while upon this earth; you have the same influence now in heaven. Pray for us and obtain for us from him the granting of my petition if it be the Divine Will. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be…
PRAYER: O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
Our Lady of Immaculate Conception: Pray for us!