CHRIST CHILD WITH ROSES
BANNER

  

      Prayers for a Novena from the 16th
to the 24th Day of Any Month

    I. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the mystery of the birth of our Divine Redeemer.

  Glory be to the Father . . .

  II. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the sufferings of the most holy Virgin and Saint Joseph on that long and weary journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and the anguish of their hearts at not finding a place of shelter
when the Savior of the world was about to be born.

Glory be to the Father . . .

  III. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the suffering of Jesus in the manger where He was born, the cold He suffered, the tears He shed and His tender infant cries.

Glory be to the Father . . .

   IV. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the pain which the Divine Child Jesus felt in His tender body, when He submitted to the rite of circumcision: I offer Thee that Precious Blood which He then first shed for the salvation of all mankind.

Glory be to the Father . . .

   V. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the humility, mortification, patience, charity and all the virtues of the Child Jesus; I thank Thee, I love Thee, and I bless Thee infinitely for this ineffable mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God.

Glory be to the Father . . .  

V. The Word was made flesh.
R. And dwelt among us.

  Let us pray.
O God, Thine only-begotten Son has appeared in the substance of our flesh. Grant that through Him Whom we acknowledge to have been outwardly like us, we may deserve to be renewed in our inward selves. He lives and reigns with Thee for ever and ever. Amen.




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