Christmas Novena Day Five

Christmas Novena 2011

Read the passage, Reflect on what strikes you in prayer, Rest with the insights and this encounter with Christ. The Prayers are from the Mass of the day in the New Roman Missal. Please share your insights if you wish.

Day Five
O Key of David, and Sceptre of the House of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens: Come and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death.

Pope Benedict XVI praying at the Grotto of the Annunciation

Collect: O God, eternal majesty, whose ineffable Word the immaculate Virgin received through the message of an Angel and so became the dwelling-place of divinity, filled with the light of the Holy Spirit, grant, we pray, that by her example we may in humility hold fast to your will. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.


Litany to Jesus in the Womb of Mary
Jesus, manifesting His Incarnation to His Holy Mother, in the womb of Mary, have mercy on us!

Jesus, adored and contemplated by His Mother in the sanctuary of her womb Jesus, before whom the angels prostrated themselves, in the womb of Mary, have mercy on us!
Jesus, raising His Mother to the heights of sanctification, in the womb of Mary, have mercy on us!

Christmas Novena Day Five