St. Andrew Novena
Dear Friends,
As the Advent season is upon us, we wanted to remind you that our goal is to provide you with daily and useful inspirations for Advent.
With a few exceptions, we pray novenas for nine days. The St. Andrew Christmas Novena is one such exception – we pray this novena for 25 days, overlapping with much of the liturgical season of Advent. We begin the novena on the feast of St. Andrew on November 30 and conclude on Christmas Eve. Tradition holds that we pray the novena 15 times daily for a particular intention.
Novenas are unique opportunities to center ourselves throughout each day and to remind us during Advent that the sacred season is unfolding amid the background noise of each day.
ST ANDREW’S NOVENA
There are specific ways we can honor the prayer tradition, and here is some guidance if needed:
Time needed: 5 minutes. Pray this novena for 25 days.
Make the Sign of the Cross.
Say the St. Andrew Christmas Novena prayer.
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.
Name any intentions or other prayers you wish to share with God. Maybe consider your response to Jesus’s call to follow Him; just as he called on Andrew and Peter, he also calls on us to let go and surrender.
Conclude with the Sign of the Cross.
If you’re praying this novena in the traditional fashion …
Repeat the above steps 14x throughout your day.
Continue praying the novena daily through Christmas Eve!
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother.
Amen
May peace be with you this Advent. God bless!
