Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laborant qui aedificaverunt eam - "Unless the Lord built the house, they worked in vain who built it" Ps. 127

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Novena of Grace

The Novena of Grace begins today: this nine-day devotion is offered through the intercession of St. Francis Xavier. I have included the prayers of the novena below; the photograph of the Xavier Family Castle in Spain was taken by William Campbell, S.J., the president of the school in which I work.


"O most kind and loving saint, in union with you I adore the most divine majesty. The memory of the favors with which God blessed you during life, and of your glory after death, fills me with joy. And I unite with you in offering to him my humble tribute of thanksgiving and praise. I implore of you to secure for me, through your powerful intercession, the all-important blessing of living and dying in a state of grace. I also ask you to obtain the favor I ask in this novena.

(Here pause to ask the favor you seek.)

But if what I ask is not for the greater glory of God, or the good of my soul, obtain for me what is most conducive to both. Amen. O God, who was pleased to gather to your Church the peoples of the East by the preaching and miracles of St Francis Xavier, mercifully grant that we, who honour his glorious merits, may also imitate the example of his virtues, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Our Father/Hail Mary/Glory be to the Father."



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