The 24th of December: Day 9

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day Night has fallen upon the hills of Bethlehem. Rejected by humankind and finding themselves without lodging, MARY and Joseph have left the inhospitable town and taken refuge in a cave at the foot of a nearby hill. Behind the Queen of Angels walks the humble donkey that had carried her during the journey from Nazareth. At the manger, they find also a gentle ox, probably left there by one of the many travellers now crowding the town’s inns.

The Divine Child, ignored by his rational creatures, must now turn to irrational ones, letting them warm with their breath the frigid air of that winter night, finding in their humble presence the respect and adoration Bethlehem had denied him. The walls of that meager lodging are tinged with a weak, reddish light from Joseph’s lantern—the rough manger full of hay becoming a prophetic image of the wonders of the altar and the intimate and miraculous Eucharistic union of JESUS with humankind. Within the cave, MARY prays in silence, as the hours of that night full of mystery go by.

But now midnight has arrived, and suddenly we see within the manger, which had been empty just moments before, the Divine Child who had been awaited, prophesied, and desired with an ineffable longing for more than four thousand years. At his feet lies his mother, overcome in a transport of worship that nothing can describe. Joseph also approaches the Child and renders him homage, thus beginning the mysterious and imponderable task of serving as the adoptive father of the Redeemer of men. The heavenly host itself descends to Earth to contemplate this incomparable wonder, and the joy of the angels bursts forth and makes the hills ring in a Gloria in Excelsis, an echo of that eternal symphony of adoration that surrounds the throne of GOD. Summoned by the angels, shepherds from across the countryside rush to bring their humble gifts to the newborn child. In the East, the mysterious star of Jacob is shining and the marvellous caravan of the Magi sets forth, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to lay before the Divine Child—symbols of charity, worship, and mortification.

Oh, beloved Child! We also, who have made this novena to prepare for the day of your Nativity, want to offer you our humble adoration. Please do not reject it! Come to souls, come to our hearts so full of love for you! Kindle within them a devotion to your holy infancy that is not intermittent and limited to Christmastime, but alive throughout all seasons—a devotion that practiced faithfully and zealously propagated may lead us to eternal life, freeing us from sin and sowing within us all the virtues needed for a Christian life.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

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ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
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ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

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Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

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The 23rd of December: Day 8

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day MARY and Joseph have arrived in Bethlehem seeking lodging in the inns and houses of the town. They are unable to find any, however, either because they are full or because of their own poverty. Still, nothing can shake the inner peace of those whose gaze is fixed upon GOD.

If Joseph was perhaps troubled and saddened out of concern for MARY and her unborn Child, as they were rejected time and again, he also smiled in holy tranquillity as he gazed upon his most chaste wife. The sad noise of every door that was shut before them was at a same time sweet music to his ears.

This was what unborn CHRIST had come to seek. He had taken human form in His desire for these humiliations. O, Divine Child of Bethlehem, these days, which so many have spent in revelry and relaxation, your parents spent in toil and mortification! The spirit that ruled in Bethlehem is the spirit of a world that has forgotten GOD. How many times have we not let this same spirit rule within us?

It is the eve of the Nativity and the sun sets behind the roofs of Bethlehem. Its last rays touch the rocky hills around the town, turning them golden. Rough men rush to and from, passing by Our Lord without care or notice in the streets of that remote town. They shut their doors when they see his mother at the threshold.

The vault of the heavens grows purple over the hills and knolls where shepherds watch their flocks. One by one, the stars begin to shimmer. A few more hours, and the Eternal Word will be present among men.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

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ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

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“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 21st of December: Day 6

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day JESUS had been conceived of the HOLY SPIRIT in Nazareth, home to Joseph and MARY, and it would have been there, in all likelihood, where one would have expected him to be born. GOD, however, had a different plan, and his prophets had foretold that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem of Judah, the City of David.

That the prophecy might be fulfilled, GOD made use of a means that seemed to bear no relation to his purpose; namely, a decree issued by Caesar Augustus that all subjects of the Roman Empire should be registered in their place of origin. MARY and Joseph, being descendants of David, were required to travel to Bethlehem. Neither the Blessed Virgin’s condition, nor Joseph’s need for daily work to provide for his growing family, exempted them from taking this long and difficult journey during the harshest season of the year.

JESUS, who was not ignorant of the place in which He was destined to be born, inspired his holy parents to trust themselves to Divine Providence, that by obeying the emperor’s decree they might unconsciously further the accomplishment of GOD’s designs. Observe, faithful souls, how the Divine Child guides them, for it is of utmost importance to the spiritual life. Understand that those who have given themselves to GOD must no longer belong to themselves, must desire nothing that GOD does not desire, must follow Him with perfect trust, even allowing themselves to be led to whatever place He wishes. There will be plenty of opportunities to see such perfect dependence and fidelity modelled throughout the life of JESUS CHRIST, this being the fundamental disposition which in Him all saints and all truly devoted souls have striven to imitate, renouncing absolutely to their private wills.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7

The 22nd of December: Day 7 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5

The 20th of December: Day 5 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4

The 19th of December: Day 4 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2

The 17th of December: Day 2 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

The 16th of December: Day 1 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 22nd of December: Day 7

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day Let us now consider MARY and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, on which the Blessed Mother carried, still unborn, the Creator of the universe made man. Let us contemplate the profound humility and obedience of the Divine Child, who though he was of the Jewish race and favoured his chosen people with an unfathomable love, chose to make himself obedient to a census decreed by a foreign prince, as if there were for him in such circumstances something attractive. It was as if the Divine Child were in a hurry to be enrolled truly and officially as a subject at the very moment he was coming into the world. Is it not strange that such humility, which man the creature finds so repugnant, seems to be the one created thing that holds appeal for the Creator? Can the humility of JESUS fail to teach us how we too must love that beautiful virtue?

Ah, let the moment come in which the one desired by all nations will appear, for all things cry out for his coming! The world, mired in darkness and disquiet, seeking but not finding relief from its afflictions, sighs for its Redeemer. Joseph’s longing and MARY’s expectation are things that human language fails to express. The Eternal FATHER is—if we may licitly use the expression—wonderfully impatient to give his only Son unto the world and see him take his place among visible creatures. The HOLY SPIRIT burns with the desire to present to the light of day the beauty of that Holy Child whom he himself has formed with such special and divine care. As for the Divine Child, himself the object of such great longing, let us never forget that he approaches us just as he approaches Bethlehem. Let us hasten, through our desire for him, the moment of his coming. Let us purify our souls so that they may become his mystical abode, and our hearts that they may be his earthly mansion. Let our penance and our detachment from worldly things “prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.”

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6

The 21st of December: Day 6 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5

The 20th of December: Day 5 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4

The 19th of December: Day 4 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2

The 17th of December: Day 2 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

The 16th of December: Day 1 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 20th of December: Day 5

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day We have contemplated already the life the Child JESUS led within the womb of his immaculate mother. Let us turn now to the life Mary herself must have led during this same period, in order to understand, to the extent possible to our limited powers, the sublime mystery of the Incarnation and the way in which we ought to respond to it.

MARY was filled with constant longing for the moment in which she would behold that earthly beatific vision: the face of GOD incarnate. She would soon see the human face destined to illuminate Heaven for all eternity. She would see the love of a child reflected upon the same eyes whose brightness was to bring everlasting joy to the multitude of the elect. She would see that tender face every day, every hour, for many years to come. She would witness in Him the apparent ignorance of childhood, the particular charms of youth, the thoughtful serenity of adulthood. She would even enjoy the freedom of doing as she liked with the Infant’s divine face: to press it against her own with all the liberty of maternal love; to cover in tender kisses the lips destined to pronounce judgment upon the world; to contemplate each one of his features, whether dreaming or waking, until she knew each one by heart. How ardently she must have longed for that day!

Such was the life of expectation that MARY led. It was a life in itself unheard of, and yet it did not for that reason cease to be a glorious model for every Christian life. Let us not be content to marvel at JESUS residing in MARY but let us realize that he lives also within us in potency, essence, and presence. Truly, JESUS is constantly being born in us and from us through the good works that He gives us the power to accomplish, through our cooperation with his grace, through the way in which a soul that lives in that grace becomes itself MARY’s womb forever, an interior Bethlehem without end. Let us realize that during those instants after receiving communion, JESUS really and substantially lives within us as both GOD and man, because that same Child who once lived within MARY, lives now also in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. What is such an existence, if not a participation in the life of MARY during those nine wonderful months, and a state of expectation, like hers, full of spiritual delights?

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6

The 21st of December: Day 6 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7

The 22nd of December: Day 7 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4

The 19th of December: Day 4 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2

The 17th of December: Day 2 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

The 16th of December: Day 1 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 19th of December: Day 4

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day Even from His mother’s womb, the Infant CHRIST already practiced that perfect submission to GOD that would characterize His entire life. He adored his Eternal FATHER; He submitted to his will; He faithfully accepted the lowly state in which He found himself, knowing all the weakness, hardship, and humiliation it implied. Who among us, having full use of the powers of reason and understanding, would willingly regress to such a helpless condition? Who could knowingly undergo such a prolonged martyrdom—one so painful in every respect? Yet that is the Divine Child began his painful and humbling journey. In such a way, he began to make Himself as nothing before the FATHER; to teach us what GOD deserves from His creature; to expiate our pride, the origin of our sins, and make us realize its fundamental evil and disorder.

We long to make a true prayer. Let us understand what such a prayer would be by contemplating the Child JESUS within his mother’s womb. The CHRIST Child prays there in the most excellent way. He does not speak; He does not meditate; He does not melt into fits of emotion. Rather, his condition of utter dependence is his prayer, a state He accepts in his willingness to honour GOD, and through which He reveals to us everything GOD deserves and the way in which He ought to be adored. Let us join this prayer made by the Divine Child within the womb of MARY. Let us imitate his profound self-denial, and let this abatement of ourselves be the first effect of our sacrifice to GOD. Let us give ourselves to GOD, not in order to be something—as our vanity demands—but in order to be nothing: to be eternally consumed in Him, to renounce our selfish desires and our hunger for greatness over others—even in a spiritual way—and forsake every stirring of vainglory. Let us disappear before our own regard, that GOD may be everything to us.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6

The 21st of December: Day 6 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7

The 22nd of December: Day 7 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5

The 20th of December: Day 5 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2

The 17th of December: Day 2 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

The 16th of December: Day 1 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 17th of December: Day 2

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day At the holy house of Nazareth, where MARY and Joseph lived, the Eternal Word was about to take on a created nature. As the HOLY SPIRIT approached to overshadow her with the divine decree, MARY was alone, engulfed in prayer. She spent the quite hours of the night in a most intimate union with GOD, and as she prayed, the Word took possession of His created abode. However, He did not arrive uninvited. Before coming to her He sent a messenger, the Archangel Gabriel, to request on GOD’s behalf MARY’s consent to the miracle of the Incarnation. The Creator did not wish to consummate this great mystery without the assent of His creature.

It was a solemn moment, for it remained within MARY’s power to refuse. With what sublime delights, with what ineffable rejoicing the Holy Trinity must have awaited the moment in which MARY was to open her lips to pronounce that “FIAT,” a word must have been as a tender melody before GOD! Through it, MARY conformed her being, in an act of free and profound humility, to the omnipotent divine will.

The Immaculate Virgin has given her assent. The archangel has vanished. GOD has clothed Himself in a created nature. The eternal will has been accomplished, the whole of Creation consummated. From the angelic realms bursts forth a roar of jubilation, but the Virgin MARY does not hear it—nor would she have paid attention to it if she had. Rather, her head was bowed and her soul immersed in a godly silence. The Word had become flesh, and though He remained still invisible to the world, He now dwelled among those whom his limitless love had come to rescue. He was no longer simply the Eternal Word; he was the Child JESUS, clothed in human form, already worthy of being called by all generations the most beautiful among the sons of men.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6

The 21st of December: Day 6 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7

The 22nd of December: Day 7 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5

The 20th of December: Day 5 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4

The 19th of December: Day 4 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1

The 16th of December: Day 1 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→

The 16th of December: Day 1

OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before you as a song of thanksgiving, uttered on behalf of every mortal man, for this wonder of your grace. Loving FATHER, there is nothing with which we can repay you, other than the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your Incarnate Son; I pray that for the sake of his divine merits, of every hardship that surrounded his birth, and of every tear that He shed at the manger, You may bring our hearts to such deep humility, such zealous love, and such perfect disregard for every worldly thing, that the newborn CHRIST may find in them his cradle and abide there forever. Amen.

Glory to the FATHER… (three times)

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN O Blessed Virgin MARY, spotless mirror of virtue and humility whom the GOD of Heaven and Earth elected for a mother, I pray that you may prepare my soul, and that of everyone who at this time might pray this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved Son. O Dearest of Mothers! Let me know something of that profound contemplation and devout tenderness with which you awaited Him, that I may be made less unworthy to see, love, and adore Him for all eternity. Amen.

(Pray the Hail MARY three times)

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH Dearest Saint Joseph, husband of MARY and adoptive father of JESUS CHRIST, I praise GOD for electing you to such an exalted task and adorning you with every grace befitting so high a ministry. I pray that through the love with which you cared for the Infant CHRIST, you may embrace my heart with a fervent desire to behold and receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament, until in His Divine Essence I may one day gaze upon Him and rejoice with Him in Heaven. Amen.
Our FATHER, Hail MARY, Glory Be……

Meditation for the Day In the beginning, the Word rested within the bosom of the FATHER in the highest Heaven, being at once the cause and the model of all Creation. Within the depths of that unfathomable eternity, the Child of Bethlehem existed before time itself, awaiting the moment in which he was to descend and take visible possession of his earthy palace—a cattle shed on the outskirts of David’s City. It is within that infinity that we must look for his origins that had no beginning, that we must commence the genealogy of the Eternal, which has no ancestors, and contemplate the life of infinite bliss that he possessed within the Godhead. The life of the Word in the bosom of his FATHER was perfection itself, and yet—O sublime mystery! —He sought a new abode, a created dwelling place. Nothing that could have added to his infinite bliss was lacking within his eternal mansion, but in his boundless mercy He nevertheless desired the redemption of the human race, which without Him could never come to fruition. In the sin of Adam mankind had rejected GOD’s friendship, and the guilt of that infinite offense could not be remitted save by the infinite merits of GOD Himself. In disobeying, Adam’s race had turned away from Goodness itself, meriting an eternal punishment. For man to be saved, it was therefore necessary that GOD, without leaving Heaven, should take on human flesh on Earth, so that through the Word’s obedience to the will of the Father, He should atone for our former disobedience, ingratitude, and rebellion. It was necessary, in consequence of his love, that He should take on the form, the weaknesses, and the limitations of man; that He should subject himself to physical growth in order to give man growth in the Spirit; that He should suffer in order to teach man how to die to his passions and pride. Hence, the Eternal Word, alight with a desire for man’s salvation, willed to make Himself also a man, and thus redeem the guilty.

PRAYER TO THE CHRIST CHILD Remember, O beloved Infant JESUS, the words you spoke unto Venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament as a promise of comfort to all the suffering and afflicted: “Everything that you would ask, ask it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing shall be denied you.” We thus come full of trust in you, O CHRIST—you who are Truth Incarnate—to offer up our every sadness.

Help us to lead a holy life, that we may receive the gift of a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the merits of your incarnation and infancy, the grace that we now request of You.

(Pause for a moment to silently make your prayer to GOD.)

We give ourselves to You, O Omnipotent Child, certain that our hope shall not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, You will hear and answer our supplication. Amen.

JUBILATIONS

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O infinite wisdom of the Sacred Godhead, to an infant’s limits You humble your powers! O Child Uncreated, come to teach the blinded the prudence that fashions wise men from the humble!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O Adonai, strong one, Once on Sinai’s mountain You spoke unto Moses giving your Commandments! Come in haste to save us from our sinful darkness as a child whose meekness topples every power.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O blest root of Jesse, from the fields eternal you shower Creation with the nard’s aroma. O Sweetest of Children, Long-awaited blossom, Lily of the valley, Flower of the meadow!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O great Key of David, to mankind in exile you open the gateway of your royal palace! With a hand most gentle do, good Child, release us, from the dismal dungeon that our crimes erected.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O lamp of the Orient! O Sun everlasting! Let us see your splendour in the midst of darkness! Most precious of children, joy of all the faithful, the light of your laughter banishes all shadows.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Mirror without blemish, You alone are holy— O perfect reflection of the Father’s mercy! Wash away our evil, save the exiled sinner, and shelter the homeless in your lowly manger.

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

O King of the nations, O radiant Emmanuel, Israel’s deep yearning, seeker of the lost ones! Child who soothes the restless with kind staff—Good Shepherd! Wild rams, at your calling, Come as lambs to praise you.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Let the heavens open! Rain down from on highest! Beneficent shower, like a holy downpour! Come, beautiful Child! Come, O GOD Incarnate! Shine, O brilliant lodestar! Bloom, O sacred flower!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Come! that Mother MARY, joyfully awaiting, longingly devices in her arms a cradle. Come! that good Saint Joseph, for your love to safeguard, has his heart refashioned as a Tabernacle.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Comfort of the mournful! Champion of the humble! Refuge of the outcast! Light of the benighted! You, the life within me, my beloved master; Friend forever faithful— Brother in the highest!

O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel.

Let my eyes enraptured by your love behold You! Let me press my lips, Lord, to the wounds that saved me. Prostrate now before you, I reach out in worship— and my tears you treasure like a loving prayer.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel, Shall come to thee, O Israel.

Come, beloved Saviour, every heart’s deep longing! Recreate our spirit and do not delay, Lord!

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 1
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8
ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 9

The 24th of December: Day 9 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 8

The 23rd of December: Day 8 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 6

The 21st of December: Day 6 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 7

The 22nd of December: Day 7 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 5

The 20th of December: Day 5 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 4

The 19th of December: Day 4 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 3

The 18th of December: Day 3 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

ADVENT NOVENA TO THE CHILD JESUS – Day 2

The 17th of December: Day 2 OPENING PRAYER Most gracious GOD of infinite charity, You gave your only begotten Son as an unparalleled sign of your love for man. By this love He was made Flesh within a Virgin Mother’s Womb and was born in a manger for our salvation. Let our prayer come before...Continue reading→

“You, at least, strive to console me.” – Time is Running Out to Respond to Our Lady’s Call

Nearly 100 years ago, on December 10, 1925, a quiet miracle unfolded in the small Spanish city of Pontevedra. Sister Lucia, the last surviving seer of Fatima, was staying with the Dorothean Sisters when she received an extraordinary vision. Before her appeared the Blessed Virgin Mary, radiant and sorrowful, with the Child Jesus at her...Continue reading→

Meditation on Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood

Meditation on Our Lord’s Precious Blood by Fr. Johann Zollner “Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.” (Pet. 1:18-19) On this day, the Church celebrates...Continue reading→