DAY TWO: IC Novena with Mary ...

There is an expression that says, "timing is everything" and that certainly is the case with God. "At a designated time God was born of a woman" (Gal. 4:4). We don't give ourselves time to ponder this fact. We rush right by it and don't think deeply about it, but just think about it: God not only was born (first mystery) but also born of a WOMAN, a HUMAN, a FLESH AND BLOOD PERSON! Ponder that!

What do we do in a Novena? Pray each day that the mystery deepen, enter the mystery and grow in greater awareness and conviction. Novenas are great because they give us this "time" to ponder a mystery that is much beyond our capacity to understand, and every year when the Novena time returns, we ponder anew and insights are given that help to enter into the mystery of the incarnation, to love it and live it!

What to do?
1. Take time to pray a little prayer each day (see below).
2. Ponder and pause upon the mystery of Mary's immaculate conception.
3. Be open to the graces the Lord wants to pour into your heart.
5. Remember that at the "designated time, you too will be full and filled with God's presence!
God's timing is perfect! Amen.
Teresa

NOVENA PRAYER:
Let us pray, O Mary, Virgin most pure and spotless, who came to earth to propose to us anew, in all of its beauty, the ideal of new life in Christ, beckon us.

You show us what we should be, but are not.

Freed from evil before it even touched you, you invite us to the great battle between good and evil in which Christ, by crushing the head of the serpent, won His eternal victory.

This victory can be ours if, obedient to the word of God and hand in hand with you, Mary, we walk on the bright road opened to us by Christ.

Draw us to yourself, Mary, until the day when in joy everlasting we shall be able to contemplate the glorious face of Christ, unveiled forever. Amen.

DAY TWO: IC Novena with Mary ...