NOVENA PRAYERS

NOVENA TO THE HOLY FAMILY

DAY 6 - DECEMBER 27

THE HOLY FAMILY - MODEL OF LOVE

The love of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph is unconditional and faithful. Without love, holiness of life is impossible. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are perfect models of pure love, and, like all love, it requires sacrifice and forgiveness (Luke 2:48-51). Holy Family, we pray that we love as you love and embrace the sacrifice required to love and forgive when needed. Holy Family, help us to recognize that loving is a choice and not something we find. Help us to love faithfully and unconditionally even when love is not returned. As adults, help us to always love the children in our family with our hearts, words and actions. As children, help us to love and respect our parents. Help us to see and love you, Jesus, in our brothers and sisters, especially in the suffering, poor, elderly, rejected and unborn. Amen.

(State your intentions here…)

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, your grace reaches us through the hands of your most precious Son, Jesus. His response to the prayers of Mary and Joseph are assured, so we ask for their prayers during this Novena. Lord, send light to our understanding, inspiration to our decisions, and the fire of pure love to our hearts, so that we will respond to the blessing of your grace in our lives which comes through the prayers of the Holy Family. And you, our Guardian Angels and all the Saints in Heaven, intercede for us so that we may honour Jesus, Mary, and Joseph by the way we live. Help us to find ways to live as they did and to avoid looking for excuses for not changing our ways. Through this Novena in honour of the Holy Family, place in us the desire to pursue and imitate the virtues of the Holy Family and to accept your answer to our requests as your will for our lives. Amen.