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 9 - DECEMBER 2

“I THEREFORE ASK YOU TO BASE ALL THAT YOU DO ENTIRELY UPON GOD AND NOT TO TRUST YOUR OWN ABILITIES, KNOWLEDGE OR REPUTATION; AND IN THIS WAY I SHALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE READY FOR ALL THE GREAT TRIALS SPIRITUAL AS WELL AS WORLDLY, WHICH CAN AFFLICT YOU, FOR GOD RAISES UP AND SUPPORTS THE HUMBLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO IN SMALL AND LOWLY MATTERS HAVE SEEN, AS IN A POLISHED MIRROR, THEIR OWN WEAKNESSES AND HAVE CONQUERED THEM.” (Letter to the Jesuits of Goa from Kagoshima in Japan, 5th November 1549).

Do you trust your own abilities and judgments more than you trust God?
Have you noticed God raising you up and supporting you?
If you look at your life and your personality in the polished mirror, do you see a person who is loved and completely accepted by God?

God our Father, as St. Francis Xavier travelled to the ends of the earth, impelled by love of Christ and afire with his good news, give me the trust and the grace to base all that I do entirely on you, safe in the knowledge that you raise up the lowly and fill us with good things. Through Christ our Lord. 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 4 - DECEMBER 2

O Mary, Mother of God, endowed in your glorious Immaculate Conception with the fullness of grace; unique among women in that you are both mother and virgin; Mother of Christ and Virgin of Christ, we ask you to look down with a tender heart from your throne and listen to our prayers as we earnestly ask that you obtain for us the favor for which we now plead...

(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, 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!