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Booklet Ic Super Novena PDF
Booklet Ic Super Novena PDF
November 29 – December 7
Solemnity: December 8
NOVENA ORDO Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.
1. PRAYER TO TAKE AUTHORITY
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.
2. CHAPLET OF ST. MICHAEL
Jesus, hear us! Jesus, Graciously hear us.
3. OPENING PRAYER
4. LITANY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN LET US PRAY:
Lord Jesus Christ, You have said, "Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall
5. NOVENA PRAYER FOR EACH DAY find; knock and it shall be opened to you”; mercifully attend to our supplications,
6. DAILY ROSARY and grant us the grace of Your most divine love, that we love You with all our hearts,
and in all our words and actions, and never cease to praise You. Make us, O Lord,
7. PETITION PRAYER AND INDIVIDUAL PETITIONS to have a perpetual fear and love of Your holy name, for You never fail to govern
those whom You establish in Your love. You, Who live and reign forever and ever.
8. CLOSING PRAYER
Amen.
9. LITANY OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS
READING: Jn 2:1-11
READING: Gen 3:1-6, 13-15 On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus
Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had was there; Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. When the wine
made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." And Jesus said to her,
garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of "O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come." His mother
the garden; but God said, `You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." Now six stone jars were standing
midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" But the serpent said to there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus
the woman, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. He said
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the steward of the feast." So they took
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the it. When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not
tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the
gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What steward of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, "Every man serves the
is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate." good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above kept the good wine until now." This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in
all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his
heel." CONSIDERATION:
“Mary is present at Cana in Galilee as the Mother of Jesus, and in a significant way
she contributes to that ‘beginning of the signs’ which reveal the messianic power of
CONSIDERATION: her Son. The wedding at Cana in Galilee offers us a sort of first announcement of
“Mary, Mother of the Incarnate Word, is placed at the very center of that enmity, that Mary’s mediation, wholly oriented towards Christ and tending to the revelation of
struggle which accompanies the history of humanity on earth and the history of his salvific power. It is evident that it is a mediation which is maternal. The Second
salvation itself. In this central place, she who belongs to the ‘weak and poor of the Vatican Council teaching proclaims Mary became ‘a mother to us in the order of
Lord’ bears in herself, like no other member of the human race, that ‘glory of grace’ grace,’ which flows from her divine motherhood. Because she was, by the design of
which the Father ‘has bestowed on us in his beloved Son,’ and this grace determines the divine Providence, the mother who nourished the divine Redeemer, Mary became
the extraordinary greatness and beauty of her whole being. Mary thus remains ‘an associate of unique nobility, and the Lord’s humble handmaid,’ who ‘cooperated
before God, and also before the whole of humanity, as the unchangeable and by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Savior’s work of restoring
inviolable sign of God’s election, spoken of in Paul’s letter: ‘in Christ. .he chose supernatural life to souls.’ And ‘this maternity of Mary in the order of grace will last
us. .before the foundation of the world, . .he destined us. .for adoption’ (Eph 1:4,5). without interruption until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect.’”
This election is more powerful than any experience of evil and sin, than all that
‘enmity’ which marks the history of man. In this history, Mary remains a sign of DAILY ROSARY
sure hope.”
DAILY ROSARY
SEVENTH DAY: DECEMBER 5 ~ First Disciple of Jesus SECOND DAY: NOVEMBER 30 ~ Mary, Full of Grace
PRAYER:
Lord our God, you sent your Son from heaven into the womb of the Blessed Virgin to PRAYER:
be your saving Word and our Bread of Life: grant that like Mary we may welcome Father, in your plan for our salvation, your Word became man, announced by an
Christ, by treasuring His words in our hearts and celebrating in faith the deep angel and born of the Virgin Mary. May we who believe that she is the Mother of
mysteries of our redemption. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. God receive the help of her prayers. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
READING: Lk 1:34-38
And Mary said to the angel, "How shall this be, since I have no husband?" And the
angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son
of God. And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a
son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God
nothing will be impossible." And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the
Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
CONSIDERATION:
“Indeed, at the Annunciation Mary entrusted herself to God completely, with the
‘full submission of intellect and will,’ manifesting ‘the obedience of faith’ to him
who spoke to her through his messenger. She responded, therefore, with all her
human and feminine ‘I,’ and this response of faith included both perfect cooperation
with ‘the grace of God that precedes and assists’ and perfect openness to the action
of the Holy Spirit, who ‘constantly brings faith to completion by his gifts.’ The word
of the living God, announced to Mary by the angel, referred to her: ‘And behold, you
will conceive in your womb and bear a son.’ By accepting this announcement, Mary
was to become the ‘Mother of the Lord,’ and the divine mystery of the Incarnation
was to be accomplished in her: ‘The Father of mercies willed that the consent of the
predestined Mother should precede the Incarnation.’ And Mary gives this consent,
after she has heard everything the messenger has to say. . .The mystery of the
Incarnation was accomplished when Mary uttered her fiat: ‘Let it be done to me
according to your word,’ which made possible, as far as it depended upon her in the
divine plan, the granting of her Son’s desire.”
DAILY ROSARY
SIXTH DAY: DECEMBER 4 ~ Mary, our Sorrowful Mother FOURTH DAY: DECEMBER 2 ~ Blessed Among Women
PRAYER: PRAYER:
Lord our God, in your eternal wisdom you fill out the passion of Christ through the Lord, our God, Savior of the human family, you brought salvation and joy to the
suffering that his members endure in the many trials of this life. As you gave his house of Elizabeth through the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ark of the new
mother strength in her agony to stand by the cross of your Son, grant that we too may Covenant. We ask that, in obedience to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, we too may
bring loving comfort to others in their distress of mind or body. We ask this through bring Christ to others and magnify your name by the praise of our lips and the
Christ our Lord. Amen. holiness of our lives. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
READING: Lk 1:45-56
[And Elizabeth exclaimed:] ‘Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to
you by the Lord would be fulfilled.’ And Mary said, ‘My soul proclaims the
greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked
with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed;
the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. He has mercy on
those who fear Him in every generation. He has shown the strength of His arm, He
has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their
thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and
the rich He has sent empty away. He has come to the help of His servant Israel, for
He has remembered His promise of mercy, the promise He made to our fathers, to
Abraham and to His descendants forever.’ Mary remained with her about three
months, and then returned to her home.
CONSIDERATION:
“Elizabeth’s words ‘blessed are you who believed’ do not apply only to that
particular moment of the Annunciation. Certainly the Annunciation is the
culminating moment of Mary’s faith in her awaiting of Christ, but it is also the point
of departure from which her whole ‘journey towards God’ begins, her whole
pilgrimage of faith. And on this road, in an eminent and truly heroic manner, the
obedience which she professes to the word of divine revelation will be fulfilled.
Mary’s ‘obedience of faith’ during the whole of her pilgrimage will show surprising
similarities to the faith of Abraham. Just like the patriarch of the People of God, so
too Mary, during the pilgrimage of her filial and maternal fiat, ‘in hope believed
against hope.’ In the expression ‘Blessed are you who believed,’ we can therefore
rightly find a kind of key which unlocks for us the innermost reality of Mary, whom
the angel hailed as ‘full of grace.’ If as ‘full of grace’ she has been eternally present
in the mystery of Christ, through faith she became a sharer in that mystery in every
extension of her earthly journey. She ‘advanced in her pilgrimage of faith,’ and at