Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

November 1: Lord, may we recommit ourselves to work as Your instruments in building a world of saints.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:

LORD, GRANT US SAINTS

Lord, grant us saints.

Grant us people of God,

people for whom God is everything.

Grant us people

filled with love for you;

people who never look

without seeing you,

never listen

without hearing you.

Grant us people able to rescue the world

from its materialism

by impressing it

with the evidence of your salvation.

Lord, we need saints.

You are the author and the apex of sanctity;

raise saints everywhere - -

among the poor and among the wealthy,

among the untutored and among the learned,

among people of the world

and among those consecrated - -

for the sanctification of the world

through the witness and proclamation of your transcendence.

Help people understand

that holiness is both a gift and a conquest.

Help them understand that to be a Christian

is to be a saint;

for a Christian is a person conformed to God:

a whole, integrated person.

Evoke in people the desire to become

what you have meant them to be,

by walking in integrity

as on a journey toward the dawn,

progressing into the perfect day.

Lord, we need saints because we need salvation.

Lord, grant us saints!

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

October 31: Holy Spirit, grant us the awareness that we are members of the Body of Christ, journeying together to holiness.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:

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Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 6)

October 29: Grant me, and everyone, the gift of wholeness, that I may become what You have made me to be, O Lord.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:

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Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 6)

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 5)

October 28: Father, give us the grace to respond to Your love to the maximum, understanding that to follow Christ is a commitment of every moment.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:

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Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 5)

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 3)

October 26: Give us the grace of detachment from material goods, from our bad habits, and from our own ways, so that we may give witness to the reality that true happiness is found only through attachment to You and Your will, O Lord.

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Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta (Day 3)

Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

October 25: Give us the grace to look upon our brothers and sisters—those near us and those far from us—with Your eyes, Jesus, so that we may see You in them and love You in them.

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day.

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Novena for November 1st The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

Novena for November 1st, The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

Day One

Pray “Lord, Grant Us Saints” prayer after praying the intention for the day:

October 24: Grant us the grace to allow You, Lord, to become everything for us in our daily lives.

LORD, GRANT US SAINTS

Lord, grant us saints.

Grant us people of God,

people for whom God is everything.

Grant us people

filled with love for you;

people who never look

without seeing you,

never listen

without hearing you.

Grant us people able to rescue the world

from its materialism

by impressing it

with the evidence of your salvation.

Lord, we need saints.

You are the author and the apex of sanctity;

raise saints everywhere - -

among the poor and among the wealthy,

among the untutored and among the learned,

among people of the world

and among those consecrated - -

for the sanctification of the world

through the witness and proclamation of your transcendence.

Help people understand

that holiness is both a gift and a conquest.

Help them understand that to be a Christian

is to be a saint;

for a Christian is a person conformed to God:

a whole, integrated person.

Evoke in people the desire to become

what you have meant them to be,

by walking in integrity

as on a journey toward the dawn,

progressing into the perfect day.

Lord, we need saints because we need salvation.

Lord, grant us saints!

Novena for November 1st, The Day of Universal Sanctification: Closing of the Year of Giaquinta

DECEMBER 8 - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

DECEMBER 8 - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

O Virgin and Queen, Immaculate Mother of God, your magnificence is incomparable. You are more sublime than the heavens, the stars, and the planets; you are more resplendent than the sun.

You, begotten by the tribe of Aaron, are truly a Virgin from whom your Son, Christ our Lord, so wonderfully blossomed.

According to the flesh, you gave birth to God - the Word; He was incarnated in you who preserved the blossom of your virginity before and after the birth of your Son.You have reconciled us to our Creator, O Mary, our Mother.                               (S. Ephrem)

Tota Pulchra

You are all beautiful, O Mary, and there is no original stain in you. You are the glory of Jerusalem. You are the joy of Israel and the honor of our people. You are the advocate of sinners. O Mary, Virgin most prudent and Mother most merciful, pray for us. Intercede for us with the Lord Jesus.

  

Leader: Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, Your conception

All: Has brought glad tidings to all the world.

Let us pray. O God, Who in the Immaculate Conception of  the Virgin Mary prepared a worthy dwelling place for your Son and, foreseeing His death, preserved Mary from all stain of sin, grant that we too, through her intercession, may walk toward You in holiness and purity of spirit. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

  

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.

  

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DECEMBER 8 - FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Nine)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY NINE

Read and Pause: "…Dear friends, let us invoke the intercession of Mary, 'Our Lady of the Way', so that the joyful proclamation of salvation in Jesus Christ may bring hope to the hearts of those who are on the move on the roads of the world….” (October 25, 2011)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Nine)

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Eight)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

  

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY EIGHT

Read and Pause: ….Very dear young people, I entrust you to the protection of St. Joseph and Mary Most Holy; following the invitation of the Virgin Mother "Do whatever he tells you," you will not lack the pleasure of the real celebration and you will be able to take the best "wine," the one that Christ gives for the Church and for the world.” (September 2011)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Eight)

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Seven)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY SEVEN

Read and Pause: "…Mary teaches us that the good of each one depends on listening with docility to the word of the Son. In those who trust in him, the water of daily life is transformed into the wine of a love that makes life good, beautiful and fruitful." (September 2011)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Seven)

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Six)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY SIX

Read and Pause: "…Do not lose courage in face of the needs that seem to extinguish joy at the table of life," he said. "At the Wedding of Cana, when wine was lacking, Mary invited the servants to go to Jesus and she gave them a precise indication: 'Do whatever he tells you.' Treasure these words, the last of Mary's taken up in the Gospels -- virtually a spiritual testament -- and you will always have the joy of the celebration: Jesus is the wine of the celebration!" (September 2011)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Six)

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Five)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY FIVE

Read and Pause: By faith, Mary tasted the fruits of Jesus’ resurrection, and treasuring every memory in her heart (cf. Lk 2:19, 51), she passed them on to the Twelve assembled with her in the Upper Room to receive the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 1:14; 2:1-4). …”  (October 17, 2011)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Five)

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Four)

Pro Sanctity Novena in preparation for the

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

November 29-December 8, 2012

All quotes are from our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Giaquinta and Giuliana Spigone, prayers from the AO Prayerbook.

1.     Read and Pause

2.     Pause and voice your intentions

3.     Pray Novena Prayer

4.     Option: Write your own reflections and prayers inspired by the Novena. Share with others.

5.     On the 8^th of December, pray a closing prayer of thanksgiving for graces given. See prayers at the end of the outline

Intention: We are praying for communion in our community/family, and in our world, as we all hunger for the one same Bread!

DAY FOUR

Read and Pause: We want to make our heart like a monstrance, exposing Jesus to all we meet.  Mary, the first monstrance, showed her Son to the Shepherds, the Magi, to all.  Before Jesus was born, Mary brought Him to Elizabeth who rejoiced in Whom she saw.  Elizabeth, in turn, became a monstrance herself and sang the first beatitude and Mary responded with the Magnificat. Together the two women - each bearing Jesus in her heart  - sang a beautiful canticle of praise to the Lord. May our own encounters with others reflect the mystery of the Visitation as we bring our Lord to a waiting world (Giuliana Spigone)

Pause and voice your intentions and then pray

Pray: Jesus, through and with Mary, let my heart be

the altar where You sacrifice Yourself

the tabernacle where You watch over us

the monstrance where You manifest Yourself to the world. Amen!

Novena for the Immaculate Conception (Day Four)