Events

Here is one with two novenas for you to choose from.

Novena in honor of Our Lady’s Nativity
(“Maria Bambina” novena)

Holy Child Mary of the royal house of David,
Queen of the angels, Mother of grace and love,
I greet thee with all my heart.
Obtain for me the grace to love the Lord faithfully during
all the days of my life. Obtain for me, too, a great devotion
to thee, who are the first creature of God’s love.
(Hail Mary)

O heavenly Child Mary, who like a pure dove was born
immaculate and beautiful, true prodigy of the wisdom of
God, my soul rejoices in thee. Oh! Do help me to preserve
the angelic virtue of purity at the cost of any sacrifice.
(Hail Mary)

Hail, lovely and holy Child, spiritual garden of delight, where,
on the day of the Incarnation, the tree of life was planted,
assist me to avoid the poisonous fruit of vanity and pleasures of the world.
Help me to engraft into my soul the thoughts, feelings,
and virtues of thy Divine Son.
(Hail Mary)

Hail, admirable Child Mary, Mystical Rose, closed garden,
open only to the heavenly Spouse. O Lily of paradise,
make me love the humble and hidden life;
let the heavenly Spouse find the gate of my heart always open
to the loving calls of His graces and inspiration.
(Hail Mary)

Holy Child Mary, mystical dawn, gate of heaven,
thou art my trust and hope.
O powerful advocate, from thy cradle stretch out thy hand,
support me on the path of life.
Make me serve God with ardor and
constancy until death and so reach an eternity with thee.
(Hail Mary)

Blessed Child Mary, destined to be the Mother of God and our loving Mother,
by the heavenly graces thou dost lavish upon us, mercifully listen to my supplications.
In the needs which press upon me from every side and especially in my present tribulation,
I place all my trust in thee.

O holy Child, by the privileges granted to thee alone and by the merits which thou hast acquired,
show that the source of spiritual favors and the continuous benefits which thou dispense are inexhaustible,
because thy power with the Heart of God is unlimited.

Deign through the immense profusion of graces with which the Most High
has enriched thee from the first moment of thy Immaculate Conception,
grant me, O Celestial Child, my petition, and I shall eternally praise the goodness of thy Immaculate Heart. Amen.

ANOTHER

Novena in honour of Our Lady’s Nativity
( written by St. Anselm )

Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies,
and against the enemy of the whole human race.
Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers,
through the merits of thy most sacred nativity,
which for the entire Christian world was a birth of joy, the hope and solace of its life.

When thou wast born, O most holy Virgin, then was the world made light.

Happy is thy stock, holy thy root, and blessed thy fruit, for thou alone as a virgin,
filled with the Holy Ghost, didst merit to conceive thy God,
as a virgin to bear Thy God, as a virgin to bring Him forth, and after His birth to remain a virgin.

Have mercy therefore upon me a sinner, and give me aid, O Lady, so that just as thy nativity,
glorious from the seed of Abraham, sprung from the tribe of Juda, illustrious from the stock of David,
didst announce joy to the entire world, so may it fill me with true joy and cleanse me from every sin.

(mention your intentions)

Pray for me, O Virgin most prudent, that the gladsome joys of thy most helpful nativity may put a cloak over all my sins.

O holy Mother of God, flowering as the lily, pray to thy sweet Son for me, a wretched sinner. Amen.